Don't Limit God Series

Romans 8:7 reads, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Our minds play games and get the better of us at times and in our current world, we are more skeptical than believing. We are more pragmatic, not believing unless there is proof by seeing. We are skeptical about our dreams coming true and the more this happens, and the more time this goes on, then we can no longer accomplish things that God wants us to achieve. Does this make sense to you? The Bible is very clear about this in Romans 12, to renew our minds. Call it a reboot. The battle between doing right and doing wrong is in the mind. Wise one’s say that if you want the proper answer to ask the heart, not the mind. In Isaiah 55:8, it says that “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.” Just as we limit God, we allow our minds to limit ourselves. We don’t believe that we can do things, so we don’t even try. God knows that we can do much more if we’ll only try. We need to know that God is there for us, but only if we let Him. He knows better as his thoughts are all-knowing, while ours are not. We just can’t think that big. His thoughts and ways are so much beyond our perspective because He doesn’t think in terms with limitations. When we learn to think without limits, nothing is impossible. Just remember that He created the heavens and the earth. He can do anything.

Too many times we tell God how to fix our situations or how we would want them fixed. Also, too many times we expect God to fix our situations rather than to ask Him for the answers as to how we can fix them ourselves. When financial issues arise, I pray for money instead of asking Him how I can go about earning the money. Nothing in life is free, nor are solutions. We need to put forth the effort to make God’s answers to our problems come to pass. Perhaps what we really need is to work harder in our walk with Jesus, as well as our walk within ourselves to become the person who the Lord wants us to become. Let’s limit God less and open ourselves more to His will.

So many times, we tell God that we want out of debt. We pray, “God, if you’ll give that 3% raise, you will be able to pay off my car in 4 years, you’ll pay off your house in 20 years, and in 45 years you’ll have paid off the wife’s department store credit card debt.

Take your eyes off your present-day issues and give them to God. He knows your problems. He has been sending you signs and solutions to your problems, but you may have been looking in the wrong place or in the wrong direction and totally missed what He was messaging you. You may think that no one knows how bad things in your life really are. But you are not the only one feeling like that. You are not the only one experiencing the lows of life. Be sure to turn to God for guidance and be open to His way of communication and solutions.

Don’t have preset ideologies about meeting people and making friends. They may not walk like you, talk like you, or look like you, but that doesn’t mean that they’d have no chance of becoming a great friend to you. All people are different, but we mustn’t limit them or ourselves when meeting strangers. Before you leave today, make a friend, learn their name, find out a little about them and share something about yourself. Step out of your box. You might just find one of God’s rewards where you’ve never looked.