When was the last time someone exceeded your expectations? For some, it’s not a regular occurrence, and they might come to believe that most people just do the minimum.

What do we expect from God? Do we expect him to answer our prayers, or do we think he’s always careful not to give us more than we deserve—like there’s a threshold, and we’ve met our limit?

But maybe we are projecting what we experience from people onto God. It’s hard for our minds to wrap around the idea that God is limitless in every way. Because we can’t understand God as limitless, we instead think that God can only do the biggest thing we can imagine.

Maybe God’s just waiting for us to ask for his version of good instead of ours.