We are sometimes assailed by arguments that tell us we may be able to accomplish the good we hope for later on, but right now we haven't enough ability, understanding, or faith to attain our cherished desires. If we listen to these arguments, we procrastinate and postpone. We put up with a limited experience and performance of good because we hope for future good but deny its present realization. But is this necessary?
Every progressive step, every victory of good over evil recorded in the Bible, was wrought out through faith that the good already at hand was enough.
The woman at Zarephath thought the flour in the barrel and the oil in the cruse would only provide one last meal for her and her son; Elijah proved it was enough; first to feed him and then to keep on feeding the widow and her son.See I Kings, Chap. 17; Christ Jesus' disciples, confronted with feeding more than five thousand hungry people, regarded five loaves and two fishes as totally inadequate; but to Jesus they were enough and, as he proved, more than enough—twelve basketfuls more.See Matt., Chap. 14;
