Why Limit THE LIMITLESS ONE?

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If you've been around motivational speakers, well wishers and even some well meaning preachers, you must have heard the saying “The Sky is the Limit!” Many employ this saying implying that whatever you want or wish to do and or become (I know the “or’s” and “and’s” can be a mouthful ...) is achievable and that is true within reason, of course. For example, I can wish and want all day long to become the King of England but that’s not going to happen, I know it’s an extreme example but you get the idea!

The same can be said of all of God’s children, we were all created for His pleasure and not a single one of us is useless to Him. We may want to become like others for whatever reason, but in doing so we are giving up what we were truly created to be. Someone once said – I forget who –  “God doesn't create photocopies, He creates originals”, and I agree with that.

Now, for a child of God, with God’s very own nature within you, you have everything you will ever need to achieve all that you were created to achieve. If you have God’s Spirit in you, you lack nothing! Stop hopping from conference to conference, church to church, ministry to ministry chasing after what you already have. You are complete in Christ Jesus! What we all need is to find out what we have and that comes from spending time with the Holy Spirit who is in us and as we obey Him we will be well on our way to accomplishing all the good works that God had already prepared for us to walk in.

You may be wondering “but how come I’m not exactly living the abundant life Jesus came to offer”? First of all, if you are in Christ, that very thought is deceptive. It is from the enemy of our souls, the father of lies trying to get us to doubt God and His word. Know this, once you entertain and accept the enemy’s doubts you are effectively limiting what God wants to do for, in and through you. Nothing can stop God’s favour from flowing in your life, not even Satan. You alone can stop His favour and resist His grace by embracing doubts and unbelief.

The Children of Israel by their unbelief limited God and it didn't go over well for them. Their enemies couldn't stop God’s favour on them, remember the Balak and Baalam saga? Try as they did, they couldn't put a curse on the children of Israel. The children of Israel were the only ones who could stop God’s favour over them by their unbelief and acts of disobedience. Actually unbelief itself is disobedience…. So yeah…

The Good Book documents their bouts of unbelief this way…

          ⁴¹ Yes, again and again they tempted God,

And limited the Holy One of Israel. – Psalm 78:41 NKJV

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Other versions render the word “limited” as “vexing”, “testing” etc.

So beloved let us not be found doing the same. Let us believe God’s word regardless of our circumstances and allow Him to walk with us through our circumstances and we will go from faith to faith, from victory to victory, from glory to glory as we journey through this life.

Take the limits off of your Father who loves you eternally and unreservedly. Remember He can do far above all that you can ask or imagine and He does it according to His power that is at work in you. And the more we align our thinking with His Word, the more His power works in us, resulting in His desires being imparted and fulfilled in, for and through us. Why would we want to limit the Limitless One who desires only the very best for us, why?

You are blessed and Highly favoured!