Maybe Instead Of Complaining

Maybe It’s Time For You To Do Something Besides Complain About Your Limitations

7/28/2019 1 Samuel 17:32-36 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Text Mark 10:46-52

As you have gone through your life, have you ever said “wait a minute that’s not fair? Have you ever secretly desired the success of others? The quickest way to discouragement is to compare yourself to those who have it better than you have it.

If we are not careful, we can become so consumed with envy and jealousy of others, we will miss out on what it is we are capable of having or doing ourselves. We also forget the very person we are envying is envying someone else. It might even be you.

We will always have a reason to complain. King Saul had offered every soldier in his army the chance to fight Goliath. All of them declined. When David said, he would do it, Saul complained he was too young and too inexperienced. Somebody is always going to think that you are not qualified to be where God plans to put you.

Life is always going to be unfair. Somebody is going to do less than you do and they are going to come out ahead of you. Some churches are not going to be nearly as faithful in teaching the Word of God as we are, and yet they will grow five times faster than we will.

The mere decision you make to become a Christian, means you are choosing an unfair lifestyle. You can’t get even. You can’t have it all. You can’t go everywhere. You can’t expect others to love you simply because you do good. You can’t expect to never have problems, because God has promised all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Even in the body of Christ, life is not fair from our perspective. You will receive some spiritual gifts from God and not others. God has something special and unique for you, because of who you are. We are all different with various strengths and talents.

Next month we are going to see why God has put us together in the way God has and why it’s important to accept what God has done. We are also different because of the limitations which we each possess. None of us are limited in the exact same way. The issue before us is, is will we do what we can do, and believe God to do the rest.

The bible says there is a time and a season for everything under the sun. There may have been a time for you to be where you are, but that doesn’t mean you stay there forever. Your limitations don’t always have to be limitations if you place them in the right seasons of life.

When asked about her success and the limitations she faced, Lucille Ball said, "Knowing what you cannot do, may be more important than knowing what you can do." Knowing what you cannot do may keep you from investing a lot of time and energy into something that’s not going to go anywhere.

It is sometimes better to accept your losses and change course, than it is to continue to pour resources down the drain. This past weekend we were seeking to know what it is New Life At Calvary can do and cannot do so that we can follow the leading of the Spirit. Next week we will share where we’re going.

Fred Smith said "A problem is something you can do something about. A fact of life is something you can do nothing about.”

There are at least four limitations which are facts of life that all of us need to face. There is the limitations of our days. We are all going to die, and we don’t have forever to do what we may want to do. Psalm 90:12 says teach us to number our days that we might apply our hearts to wisdom. Don’t plan on coming to Jesus tomorrow, when the opportunity is there today. Don’t plan on one day getting serious about God, when the time for it is right now.

There is the limitations of our gifts. We do not have all of the spiritual gifts and talents, nor do we all have the same ones. Nothing is going to change it, that is why we are the body of Christ We need each other to become all God wants us to be. In August we will be dedicating a Sunday service to understanding what our individual gifts are.

There is the limitations of our resources, we can’t have it all. There are financial limitations we have to accept until they change. Simply asking God for a million dollars is not going to pay our bills. Praying for God to increase the number of tithers in our midst is a good place to start. Until then, we need to live within the resources God has provided us at this time and seek God for ways to increase them.