What or Who limits you…? By limit, I’m talking about who you are, what you do, and how you go about expressing your who and what. Question: what is the type and source of their power to be the definer of your limits and who you are? How did they attain this power… through might? through expertise (ability, intelligence, talent, etc.)? through you giving the power over you – to them? Perhaps the question should be phrased in the plural… do many people have power to limit you in various areas of your life?
My questions still remain – who authorized the power and are you aware that you granted it, because ultimately it is always our choice to grant the power? No one but us have the power over our character, our attitudes. I would suggest that too many times we have given away our rights because of (fill in the blank) and aren’t even aware that we did it. That is, until we attempt to assert ourselves. Now how do we respond to our limitations? Fight? Give in? Do we attempt to reassert ourselves?
Perhaps the ‘limits’ are legitimate, at least in your eyes. Are they? Do whoever or whatever limits you have the legitimate right to limit? Why? Again – why?! Other than the Lord, who would have the authority and right to limit you and who you are and are becoming. Is this becoming a circular argument? I don’t think so. I think that too often we are preempted or seduced into believing that we are less than who the Lord has made us to become. We blithely and blindly accept the restrictions and never walk into what has been prepared for us.
The Word tells us that we have been made: “…to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…” (Ephesians 2:6) which is certainly not a limitation. Paul prays a powerful prayer for us all in Ephesians when he says:
“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He
would grant you (us) according to the riches of His glory to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man…” (v. 14-16)
This is no mere impartation, this is the power of God in us (4:14-16).
“…that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the
cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting but, speaking the truth in love,
may grow up in all thing into Him who is the head – Christ – from whom
the whole body, joined and knit together by which every joint supplies…”
You are limited only by what you limit yourself. You are the Lord’s hand in the world in which you live. You are able. You are…
