Things That You Can’t Have Too Much Of

Family Feud¹ was a popular game show that pitted two families against each other. A member from each family would walk to the podium and be asked to guess the most common answer to a question. It was usually good, clean fun. Here are a few of the weird answers that people came up with:

• Q: Name something snowmen might have nightmares about. A: clothes/shoes (23)
• Q: Name something people let pile up. A: prisons (46)
• Q: Name something a doctor might pull out of a person. A: a gerbil
• Q: Name something people take to the beach. A: a turkey
• Q: Name something that follows the word “pork.” A: upine

One Family Feud question had a great top answer. Question: “Name something people say you can never have too many of.” Answer: Friends.

As followers of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Apostle Peter gave us many profound answers, one of which answered the question, “Name something you can’t have too much of.” Answer:

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
– 2 Peter 1:2 ESV

St. Peter wasn’t the only author in the New Testament to give this answer. In Jude 1:2 (ESV), St. Jude gave the same answer as St. Peter. “May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.” If we turn to the Old Testament, we find in Lamentations 3:22-23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” God’s will is for us to receive grace, peace, and mercy continually.

He has taught us how to navigate our time on this earth. We are to make our actions reflect the traits we have seen in Jesus, rather than trusting in our own will, desires, or abilities. We may think that we need more, or there just isn’t enough time, but we’d be wrong.

We must live by faith, acting on what we know is pleasing to God:

And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
– Hebrews 11:6

Living by faith in Jesus puts us in perfect alignment to receive boundless mercy and grace from our Heavenly Father. Life will get difficult, life will try to knock us down and keep us there, but it can’t because it no longer owns us. We belong to Jesus, and He’s got this.

Footnotes

1. Game-Show, guessing-game (Sorted by Popularity Ascending). (n.d.). IMDb. Retrieved August 4, 2025, from https://www.imdb.com ↩︎