You see, it is as if a common deckhand in the line of duty, during a raging storm, is swept off a great ocean liner into the foaming sea. The rescue party goes to work fast and before long the deckhand stands on his feet, the crowd gathered around him. He has been unconscious. He feels his clothes, and they have been changed. He feels his head, but a new brass cord trimmed cap is upon it. The deckhands who were his fellows stand to salute him, and in astonishment he asks why. The captain comes to him and calls him mate and the vessel rolls on while he assumes his newly gained place of authority next to the captain of the ship. He fell off a deckhand, he is rescued a mate!
This is the way grace works. This is the "much more" abounding grace in Jesus Christ!
MUCH MORE! "Where sin did abound, grace did
MUCH MORE abound!" You cannot understand God nor His language apart from it. Nor can you really fellowship deeply with the Father in prayer unless you understand HIM as being "
much more" than. Nor can you understand what His Kingdom is, nor how it shall develop, nor His plan and purpose for
the ages to come, unless you understand what "
much more" means. If your hope is merely something for you, and the rest of the "
little flock" of saints, and not "
much more," then it is
not from the heart of God but is
a product of self. Listen! "
The love of God is broader than the measures of man's mind;
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind." "Much more" is something for HIM - yes, ALL for Him! Much more means abundance -
MORE THAN ENOUGH.
Source:
The Savior of the World, by J. Preston Eby
Kindgdom Bible Studies Savior of the World Series Part 1