In Acts 3 you will find a healing story. Peter and John are going up to the temple, where they encounter a man lame from birth. As has been the practice, this man’s friends and family carry him, daily, to the gate of the temple where he can beg for alms.
As Peter and John approach, he asks them for their spare change.
I couldn’t help but be struck with the gift he receives. He asks for alms; by way of the Word of Christ, his legs are healed.
How often we are like this man. Lame from birth, we set our hopes and expectations low. We have the courage to ask, but only to ask for that which will get us through the day. Our eyes are cast down, seeing only that which comes into our field of vision.
Dare we ask for that which is too good to ever imagine?
God’s goodness and God’s grace overflow. God’s desire to give is greater than our willingness or our ability to ask. What will we ask God for? How courageous will we be in approaching the One who gave us life and now stands ready to give us a full life?
In the Acts 3 story, the man receives, even though he asks for something much less. Our receiving is not always dependent upon our asking. Learning to ask, learning to expect develops within us an ability to hope – to hope for that which is life changing and life altering.
Aware of God’s desire to give, may we lift up our eyes and seek that which is above and beyond anything we could ever obtain on our own.
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