MAN'S LIMITS ARE NOT GOD'S LIMITS

Date: Tue Mar 27 22:44:56 2007

When men think about God, they usually do so from their own perspective. They know God is great, but they still usually see him as FINITE. They know he created everything, and is above everything, and has vast knowledge, but they still believe there is an end to it somewhere.

I believe that is why man puts such tight limits on his own achievement. Man wants to do more, know more, and be more. Man wants to improve. Man wants more than he has. Man puts up aggressive goals for progress, and has achieved absolutely wonderful things. Who would have thought you could email someone a movie? Or text message someone while sitting in a meeting? Or have a car that can go almost 200mph?

As great as those things are, and as great as progress has been on some fronts, we seem stuck in the dust when it comes to spiritual things. He believe we can store a trillion bits of information on a microchip, but we donít believe God can heal.

We can believe that Doctors can revive the dead with a defibulator but we struggle with Christ rising from the dead. We believe twins can come from a sperm and an egg in a Petrie dish, but not that God can bring his son from a virgin.

We put more limits on God than we do on man. We have it backwards! God is the one who is not limited! God is the one who can do anything!

People like to say you can do anything if you put your mind to it. You canít. Only one person can be president of the United States at a time. Only one person per year can win the batting title. Only one team can win the Superbowl. There are winners and losers in life. As hard as we try, victory is not guaranteed in the affairs of men.

How different it is in Godís world! We can all be conformed to the character of Christ! We can all spend eternity with him! We can all be holy as God is holy! We can all receive incorruptible crowns. We can all be free from sin.

You see, God does not have limits. A certain percentage of the people in Godís kingdom do not have to earn minimum wage to keep the economy of heaven healthy.

There is no separation of masters and servants in heaven! All the quarters for people are servantsí quarters! Everyone in heaven is a servant to THE MASTER. That is why it is so difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God. They have a hard time with Godís mercy and Godís concepts. They have a hard time with God removing all limits from those who are poor in the eyes of the world but who are rich in the sight of God.

Donít let anything keep you from full acknowledgement of the unlimited power of God. Know that God can be 100% intimate with each human being he created. Know that God remembers every word you ever spoke and every idea you ever had. Know that God can do anything he wants through you, whether healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding the multitude, walking on water, or speaking his word in love to a hurting and dying world.

We can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens us. That is because God can do everything. And he wants to share his power! He has put the Holy Spirit within us, and there is no reason that we cannot operate in that power as long as we submit to Christ! We are the ones who limit what God can do through us. We are the ones who downplay the power of God in us. Nothing shall be impossible for us!

Remember the Tower of Babel? God said they were one and they would be successful. He frustrated their plans. God is building his precious body here on this earth. He is successful, and the glory of that body will far exceed the glory of the tower of Babel or any other human achievement. The glory will come when we operate in the unity that Jesus prayed for in John 17. Unity is very strong and very potent. We have yet to comprehend the exploits of a truly united and faithful church.

My friends, donít limit God. Let his do with you whatever he wishes, and know that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.