Saints make their necessity the measure of God’s action for them. It is true that my necessity is met; but it is never the measure of God’s action for me. If we make our necessity the measure, we never get beyond it — we do not value His purpose. God does not give us that which we do not value. Everyone has what he values. One may think that he values God’s truths more than he has; but the fact that he does not is shown by his not possessing it — walking in it. God says, you do not value more, therefore I do not give you more. He does not cast His pearls before swine; it is according to the amount of interest that we take in it that we have it; according to our appreciation of the truth is the measure that we have it; “unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have more abundantly.”
Adapted from Food for the Flock