MORNING MANNA 12-11-23
LIMITING GOD
“How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:”- Psalm 78:40-43
We speak of God’s power as being unlimited, and that is true. We see a great demonstration of God’s ability in the creation where a few simple words of Divine authority were all that was needed to bring into existence everything that we see around us. The same God who created all things has the power to address whatever needs or problems we may face. And yet for all the power that He possesses and is willing to use, there are actually ways in which we human beings can limit God’s work.
The Psalmist tells us that this is what the Children of Israel did through their unbelief and unfaithfulness in the wilderness—they limited what God could do for them. The same phenomenon occurred in the New Testament during the life of Christ. After He had preached with power and worked great miracles across Israel, Jesus was rejected by his own hometown of Nazareth. “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). Jesus was still God and still able, but the lack of belief limited the work that He did there.
It is a great tragedy when we do not live in such a way as to ensure God is able to freely operate in and through our lives. Andrew Murray said, “Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.” There are no limits to what He can accomplish unless we live in a way that holds back His power from our lives. Keep your faith and commitment strong so that the work of God in your life is not limited. (Daily in the Word)
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx
