Can I Have Some More?

               The classic novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens contains a memorable quote by Oliver.  Young Oliver, an orphan who is desperately hungry stands in line to receive a small amount of weak gruel.  After he quickly finishes it, he then asks: “please sir, I want some more?”  The master is shocked and outraged at the audacity that one of the orphans in the workhouse would dare to ask for more.  Oliver is ridiculed and humiliated because he wanted more.

            I am so thankful that I am a child of God adopted into His family through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.  We are not orphans, but blood bought children of the Father.  1 John 3:1 tells us: “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God…”  We should never be ashamed to ask our Father for more.  I like what Paul said in Romans 5:8-11: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation”.  God sent His Son to die for us and we receive so much more by our relationship with Him.  In those verses we have the much more of justification, the much more of salvation from wrath, and the much more of reconciliation.

            God is not stingy; He loves us so much that He gave us His Son.  He loves to lavish on His children a full bowl of His daily supply of grace, forgiveness, mercy, and provision for our needs.  Never be ashamed to hold your empty bowl up and ask your Father, “please sir, can I have some more”?