Jesus loves to exceed the expectations and needs of His people by inexplicable displays of overflowing abundance.
He broke a few small fish and a couple loaves of bread, and somehow fed entire multitudes with basketfuls left over.
He provided Elijah with enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God, from two meager meals of bread and water.
He prevented the starving widow’s oil and flour jars from running dry, and saved the sons of the poor widow by a miraculous stream of expensive oil.
He commanded a swarm of large fish to fill the disciples’ nets without breaking them, and provided a double payment of the temple tax from Peter’s first catch.
He fed His people in the desert with manna and quail, and brought a great, drenching rain from what looked like a little cloud like a man’s hand rising from the sea.
But the most lavish, most elaborate provision of all was His atoning death for sinners. His holy soul became sin so that He might pay the infinite debt of sin by His infinite substitutionary merit, and His perfect righteousness was credited to us.
How can there ever be a provision more exceedingly great, more abundant than this? What further proof can ever be given to show that He is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think?
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.”
And again:
“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”