Other Limits?
Have you ever gotten to a point in your life where you felt completely uninspired? It’s a time when you were deferring something important and yet, all the while God was on your mind. I’m at that point right now. I think I may leave this blog title null or simply write it uninspired. I have never felt so close to God, but unable to reach him until now. There is so much that I would like to share with him, and yet I’m afraid he doesn’t hear or he doesn’t care. Lately I've felt as if God was or at least should be angry with you. I feel that excessively now. I have put school and everything else before him in the past few weeks in a struggle to survive, in school anyway. I’m currently listing to the song, Take My Life by Passion Worship Band:
Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to thee
Take my moment and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise
Take my hands and let them move, at the impulse of thy love
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee
Take my voice and let me see always only for thy king
Take my lips and let them be filled with messages for me
Take my silver and my gold not a might would I withhold
Take my intellect and muse, every power as you choose
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my world, and make it thine, it shall be no longer mine
take my heart, it is thine own, it shall be thy royal thrown
take my love, my Lord I pour, at your feet its treasure store
Take myself and I will be ever only all for thee
Take myself and I will be ever only all for thee
Here am I, all of me
take my life, it’s all for thee
here am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my life, here am I
Take my life, Lord, Take my life
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my life
Take my life, and let it be consecrated lord to thee
What a sincere prayer. I am sitting down and considering what it means to offer God your life. When you are truly living solely for him, every decisions, moment, and thought becomes focused on God. Most importantly, it’s like letting something powerful and amazing out of a box and allowing it to places you never thought you would visit. It is removing the limit from God and finally allowing God to do everything he plans to do. Many of us fear giving our lives totally to God or making it totally to God because of several reasons:
1.) Unsure what that means
2.) Afraid you will lose yourself
3.) Don’t believe you can live a life that is “perfect”
4.) Don’t really want to give in to God just yet
5.) You don’t know God
The first one is easy. Begin to sincerely pray that God will begin to infiltrate you life and begin to make him more like him. Most importantly, pray that he’ll take control of your life. Sincerity is probably the most important part of that statement. God knows our hearts and empty words does not “move” him and therefore your prayer will accomplish nothing. Once you pray you should begin to believe that God would do this for you. Most times God will begin to work in your life without you faith, but it’s always more fun to trust God. Perhaps I will deal with the latter 4 at a later date, but for right now, I’m going to explain what all of this has to do with limits.
Imagine you are going on a maze. Suddenly, you find a map in the middle of that scavenger hunt. The map does not show you where you are going, but it vaguely capture where you have been. At the top of map, a note says it will lead you to the end of the maze. You begin to walk forward with the map and you come to a fork in the road, you have some natural inclination to go right, and suddenly something appears on the map that tells you go left rather than go right. Unfamiliar with the map and its markings, you choose to follow your natural inclination. After hours of trying to find your ways back, it turns out that the left turn brings you to the first checkpoint. You repeat the mistake of ignoring the map two more times. You have one of three options of this point:
1.) You will continue to follow your inclinations (temptations)
2.) You will depend solely on the map and follow it religiously
3.) You will continue with your inclinations at times and other times just follow the map
Option and 1 and 3 put a huge limit on God. Number 3 will inevitably leave you stranded and so far astray that you will find it nearly impossible to get back to following the map. Notice in the analogy, when you are off track, it does not show you the way back, so you will inevitably get lost in your lukewarm tendencies and not being able to find your way back. For number 1, you are doomed to wonder the maze endlessly, forever, or long enough to lose yourself. If you ever find the exit to the maze, you it will be of no benefit to you. It turns out person number 2, makes it through the maze with little difficulty, simply because you set the map free to direct. He did not question its authority, he did not do this on blind faith, the map had proven itself and so he followed the device. Although you spent a long time in the maze, he knew, without doubt, he would one day find the end.
How many people know that they will one day find the end? How many people are following the direction and taking the proper route through life? Mainly, option 2 allows the map no limits. He could lead the man anywhere and he would follow. Do you have that much trust and faith in God? Are you allowing him to lead you anywhere or are there limits? Can God only dictate a portion of your life? To be honest, number 1, 2, and 3 exist on a continuum where 1 and 2 are at opposing ends and number 3 is directly in the middle. Few people reach 3, 1, and even fewer reach number 2. Most people, saved or unsaved, could probably find themselves somewhere between 1 and 3. We tend to follow our inclinations than we follow God’s commands. I’m really encouraging you to Take the Limits OFF and to RELEASE God to Direct your Life.
NO LIMITS
Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to thee
Take my moment and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise
Take my hands and let them move, at the impulse of thy love
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee
Take my voice and let me see always only for thy king
Take my lips and let them be filled with messages for me
Take my silver and my gold not a might would I withhold
Take my intellect and muse, every power as you choose
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my world, and make it thine, it shall be no longer mine
take my heart, it is thine own, it shall be thy royal thrown
take my love, my Lord I pour, at your feet its treasure store
Take myself and I will be ever only all for thee
Take myself and I will be ever only all for thee
Here am I, all of me
take my life, it’s all for thee
here am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my life, here am I
Take my life, Lord, Take my life
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here am I, All of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Here Am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee
Take my life
Take my life, and let it be consecrated lord to thee
What a sincere prayer. I am sitting down and considering what it means to offer God your life. When you are truly living solely for him, every decisions, moment, and thought becomes focused on God. Most importantly, it’s like letting something powerful and amazing out of a box and allowing it to places you never thought you would visit. It is removing the limit from God and finally allowing God to do everything he plans to do. Many of us fear giving our lives totally to God or making it totally to God because of several reasons:
1.) Unsure what that means
2.) Afraid you will lose yourself
3.) Don’t believe you can live a life that is “perfect”
4.) Don’t really want to give in to God just yet
5.) You don’t know God
The first one is easy. Begin to sincerely pray that God will begin to infiltrate you life and begin to make him more like him. Most importantly, pray that he’ll take control of your life. Sincerity is probably the most important part of that statement. God knows our hearts and empty words does not “move” him and therefore your prayer will accomplish nothing. Once you pray you should begin to believe that God would do this for you. Most times God will begin to work in your life without you faith, but it’s always more fun to trust God. Perhaps I will deal with the latter 4 at a later date, but for right now, I’m going to explain what all of this has to do with limits.
Imagine you are going on a maze. Suddenly, you find a map in the middle of that scavenger hunt. The map does not show you where you are going, but it vaguely capture where you have been. At the top of map, a note says it will lead you to the end of the maze. You begin to walk forward with the map and you come to a fork in the road, you have some natural inclination to go right, and suddenly something appears on the map that tells you go left rather than go right. Unfamiliar with the map and its markings, you choose to follow your natural inclination. After hours of trying to find your ways back, it turns out that the left turn brings you to the first checkpoint. You repeat the mistake of ignoring the map two more times. You have one of three options of this point:
1.) You will continue to follow your inclinations (temptations)
2.) You will depend solely on the map and follow it religiously
3.) You will continue with your inclinations at times and other times just follow the map
Option and 1 and 3 put a huge limit on God. Number 3 will inevitably leave you stranded and so far astray that you will find it nearly impossible to get back to following the map. Notice in the analogy, when you are off track, it does not show you the way back, so you will inevitably get lost in your lukewarm tendencies and not being able to find your way back. For number 1, you are doomed to wonder the maze endlessly, forever, or long enough to lose yourself. If you ever find the exit to the maze, you it will be of no benefit to you. It turns out person number 2, makes it through the maze with little difficulty, simply because you set the map free to direct. He did not question its authority, he did not do this on blind faith, the map had proven itself and so he followed the device. Although you spent a long time in the maze, he knew, without doubt, he would one day find the end.
How many people know that they will one day find the end? How many people are following the direction and taking the proper route through life? Mainly, option 2 allows the map no limits. He could lead the man anywhere and he would follow. Do you have that much trust and faith in God? Are you allowing him to lead you anywhere or are there limits? Can God only dictate a portion of your life? To be honest, number 1, 2, and 3 exist on a continuum where 1 and 2 are at opposing ends and number 3 is directly in the middle. Few people reach 3, 1, and even fewer reach number 2. Most people, saved or unsaved, could probably find themselves somewhere between 1 and 3. We tend to follow our inclinations than we follow God’s commands. I’m really encouraging you to Take the Limits OFF and to RELEASE God to Direct your Life.
NO LIMITS
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