No Limits

What limits have we put on God? Whether conscious or de facto, the limits we place on God can negatively affect our relationship. If you’ll bear with me, follow this analogy. You have been separated from you father for a long time. You were separated early in life because of circumstances out of both of your control and you have finally gotten the opportunity to rebuild your relationship. You finally get the opportunity to meet him and you suddenly begin to speculate what he will be like. You will use what you understand about other fathers, the circumstnace that split you apart, and the opinions of others in forming a general assessment of this man. When you meet him, he will either surpass or corroborate your speculations. You suddenly find yourself in a situation where you expect many terrible things, but all he ever does are great things. At times, you misinterpret his motivations and the efforts he contributes because you have already formed a generalization of this man. You have put him in a box, a prison, a place full of limits.
In many ways, this is similar to what we do with God. We each have our preconceived notions of God and rather than experiencing him for ourselves. It makes no sense to place these limits on God. God at times will respect our artificial limits. Because he has given us the privilege of choice, he will not help or bless us because our limits on him ask him not to do so. God has made it clear that he has no limits. He says that he can do immeasurably more than and above all that we can imagine. I have decided to extinguish the limits that I have put on God. If we put limits on God, we do more damage that we do good. We cannot comprehend the extent of God’s justice, mercy, beneficence, or majesty. Most important we should not try to constrain it.