I wonder what each one of us would ask if we had a definite and munificent offer like that! I wonder what we really desire most just at present, what we are hoping and working for? What is our real and principal ambition in life? to get on in the world, to prosper in business, to amass wealth?
“When your ship comes home,” what cargo of dreams would she bring us, I wonder? Would we want our income doubled, or a mortgage paid off, or a year of travel, or, perhaps, a large sum of money which we think would put us beyond the reach of care and anxiety, and which would buy us happiness and many other things?
“O, that Thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested” (1 Chron. 4:1010And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. (1 Chronicles 4:10)).