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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: like an eternal, unfailing fountain, which, the more it pours forth and
overflows, the more it continues to give, -- and He desires nothing
more earnestly of us than that we ask much and great things of Him, and
again is angry if we do not ask and pray confidently.
For just as when the richest and most mighty emperor would bid a poor
beggar ask whatever he might desire, and were ready to give great
imperial presents, and the fool would beg only for a dish of gruel, he
would be rightly considered a rogue and a scoundrel who treated the
command of his imperial majesty as a jest and sport, and was not worthy
of coming into his presence: so also it is a great reproach and
dishonor to God if we, to whom He offers and pledges so many
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