Keeping your gas tank full; by faith? - 2 Kings 1-5

Imagine going to the cupboard to retrieve some cooking oil only to find that the oil jar is never empty. O, better, that the cookie jar is always full! Or, the gas tank on the car, after many miles of travel, is never empty. The story in 2 Kings 4 is about a widow who was running out of oil. Since she was a women of faith she turned to Elisha during a famine in the land. She was instructed to gather as many bottles as she could. Her faith was limited apparently because the bottles ran out before the oil did. I would suppose that we would do the same thing. Our faith would be limited by the constraints of our imagination. We would not act in full faith but on a faith enough to get us by. Like putting a half of tank of gas in for a full trip we forget that God has more to give us and more room in our tank. Living by faith it is tough to for us when we lack faith. We are instructed to live by faith and to trust God for all. But, when we can buy what we need we forget that God wants us to trust Him. In Romans 14:23 we read that "whatever is not of faith is sin." Paul tells us that when living our life it is to be totally by faith. We are not to trust in other things but God himself. Elisha wanted the widow to trust completely in God. Too bad she didn't get more bottles.