More than Sufficient/Holy Laughter :)

From Today's Streams in The Desert (feb 26) I hope it will encourage someone today :)"My grace is sufficient for thee" (2 Cor. 12:9).The other evening I was riding home after a hard day's work. I felt very wearied, and deeply depressed, when swiftly, and suddenly as a lightning flash, that text came to me, "My grace is sufficient for thee." I reached home and looked it up in the original, and at last it came to me in this way, "MY grace is sufficient for thee"; and I said, "Yes, Lord, I should think it is, Lord," and burst out laughing. I never fully understood what the holy laughter of Abraham was until then. It seemed to make unbelief so absurd. I pictured a thirsty little fish, being very thirsty, was troubled about drinking the river dry, and Father Thames said, "Drink away, little fish, my stream is sufficient for thee." Or, it seemed after the seven years of plenty, a mouse feared it might die of famine; and Joseph might say, "Cheer up, little mouse, my granaries are sufficient for thee." Again, I imagined a man away up yonder, in a lofty mountain, saying to himself, "I breathe so many cubic feet of air every year, I fear I shall exhaust the oxygen in the atmosphere," but the earth might say, "Breathe away, O man, and fill the lungs ever, my atmosphere is sufficient for thee." Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to Heaven, but great faith will bring Heaven to your souls. --C. H. SpurgeonThere is always a large balance credited to our account in the bank of heaven. It is waiting for us to exercise our faith to draw upon it. Draw heavily on God's resources.

I pictured a thirsty little fish, being very thirsty, was troubled about drinking the river dry, and Father Thames said, "Drink away, little fish, my stream is sufficient for thee."This is an encouragement indeed, thanks!This illustration reminds me of something I read just recently in If by Amy Charmichael, she said;"The words "grace for grace" have been a help to me since I read a little old book of Bishop Moule's something that opened their meaning. (Till then I had not understood them.)He says "for" means simply "instead": "grace instead of grace." The image is of perpetual succession of supply; a displacement ever going on; ceaseless changes of need and demand.The picture before us is as of a river. Stand on its banks, and contemplate the flow of waters. A minute passes, and another. Is it the same stream still? Yes. But is it the same water? No. The liquid mass that passes you a few seconds ago fills now another section of the channel; new water has displaced it, or if you please, replaced it; water instead of water. And so hour by hour, and year by year, and century by century, the process holds; one stream, other waters-living, not stagnant, because always in the great identity there is perpetual exchange. Grace takes the place of grace[and love takes the place of love]; ever new, ever old, ever the same, ever fresh and young, for hour by hour, for year by year, through Christ."