Not asking for eough? C S Lewis

And Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."  (John 4:10)


If the Samaritan woman knew who she was talking to, she would have asked for more!

Do we ask for enough?

If we realize exactly Who we are talking with, shouldn't we ask for more?



From The Weight of Glory by C S Lewis:

     "If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has no part of the Christian faith.

     "Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the reward promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

     "We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.

     "We are far too easily pleased."


And I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know his love that surpasses knowledge--that you maybe filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

..who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
                                --Ephesians 3:17-20