God Never Does Anything Small

Before I go to sleep every night, I read a devotional out of the book Springs in the Valley by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman. I very much enjoy her books (I have also read and loved the first volume of Streams in the Desert) and so often it turns out that the topic of the devotional is exactly what I need that night. I read this one last night and it was such a blessing to my heart:

“And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall they seed be.”    (Genesis 15:5)

We are profoundly impressed with the unlimited resources of the God of the Bible. He never does anything small. When He makes an ocean He makes it so deep that no man can fathom it. When He makes a mountain He makes it so large that no one can measure or weigh it. When He makes flowers, He scatters multiplied millions of them where there is no one to admire them but Himself. When He makes grace, He makes it without sides or bottom and leaves the top off. Instead of giving salvation with a medicine dropper, He pours it forth like a river.                                                                                                                                                                 When God sets out to do a thing for us, He does it with a prodigality of love-prompted abundance that fairly staggers one who reckons things by the coldly calculating standards of earth.                                                       Whatever blessing is in our cup it is sure to run over. With Him the calf is always the fatted calf; the robe is always the best robe; the joy is unspeakable; the peace passeth understanding; the grace is so abundant that the recipient has all-suffiency for all things, and abounds to every good work.                                                         There is no grudging in God’s benevolence; He does not measure out His goodness as the apothecary counts his drops and measures his drams, slowly and exactly, drop by drop. God’s way is always characterized by multitudinous and overflowing bounty, like that in nature which is so profuse in beauty and life that every drop of the ocean, every square inch of the forest glade, every molecule of water, teams with marvels and defies the research and investigation of man. Well may we cry with the Apostle,                                                                                              “I have all and abound.”