limitations – Moment to Moment (Bible blog)

What God asks of us

But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”

The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind?

Is it not I, the Lord?

Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.” (Exodus 4:10-12)

We all have weaknesses and limitations. And when God asks us to do something, it’s easy to use those weaknesses and limitations as an excuse not to obey.

But God is not limited by our limitations. He only asks of us two things: our availability and our obedience.

And by relying, not on ourselves, but on him, we can do anything he has asked of us.

Lord, you made me the way I am, with all my weaknesses and limitations. But you are not limited by my limitations.

So I simply offer myself to you as I am and say, “Here I am. Send me.”

Faith to see beyond (part 2)

“It’s impossible. I can’t do it.”

How often do we see situations in life and say that, if not with our mouths, then in our hearts?

That’s how Abraham and Sarah must have felt.

God first gave them the promise of a child when they were 75 and 65 respectively. Twenty-four years passed and still no baby had come.

In the meantime, they had made their own plans to have an heir, as Sarah gave her slave Hagar to Abraham in order to have an heir through her.

But God said, “No, this is not what I meant when I said I’d give you a son. You will have a son through Sarah.”

At this, Abraham laughed. And now with them 99 and 89 years old, God again promised that Sarah would have a baby, and this time Sarah laughed. It seemed utterly impossible.

But eventually, they both saw past their own limitations and saw that with God, all things are possible. And so they kept on trying to have a child.

And the writer of Hebrews tells us,

By faith Abraham, even though he was past age–and Sarah herself was barren–was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise.

And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. (Hebrews 11:11-12)

How about you? What situations are you going through that seem utterly impossible?

Many things seem utterly impossible because of our own weaknesses and limitations. But God has no weaknesses or limits.

DDo you have the faith to see beyond your own weaknesses and limits and put your trust in him who has no limits?