Yea, they turned
back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel (Psalm 78:41).
Do you know it’s
possible to limit God in your life? A lot of people have unconsciously placed
limits on what the Lord can do in their lives. For example, there’s a young guy
who wants to get a job and all he prays is “Oh Lord, please let my application
be accepted in so and so company.” He places so much emphasis in his prayer on
his letter of application, thinking that God must do it that way. Unknown to
him, he is limiting God, because he fails to realize that God could give him
that job any other way, or even a better one.
Listen, when God
wants to do something, He doesn’t have to follow the way that men have laid
down –he overrides all human ‘modus operandi’. When Joshua was plotting how to
overthrow Jericho, a city whose walls were almost impregnable, God showed up
and said, “Boy, get rid of the city for seven days and shout, and the walls
will fall down flat” (Joshua 6). What a strategy! God didn’t say, “Now, Joshua,
let’s roll out the bulldozers and tractors”; He had to get Joshua out the box
he was in, and everything went as God had said.
Don’t ever place a
limit on God. You limit Him when you think that the only way He can get
something done is the way you think he will do it. He is too big to be tied
down to man’s way of doing things. When he does His thing, He doesn’t need to
do it according to your plans. Trust Him, because He is God Almighty, and He is
able to do”…exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to
the power that worketh in us” (Ephesians 3:29).
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