Based on Psalm 78
There has been many times in our lives that we have limited God. We get off the path, follow our own ways, or may not be living a life of faith. The story may even go something like this.
How many of you and be honest, practice high speed skidding. Go at a high rate of speed and deliberately put your vehicle in a skid, working the brakes and steering wheel to rectify the situation and come to a complete safe stop. No injuries to yourself or others you escape unscathed. You practice this every day for a couple of years so it becomes second nature to you. If you find yourself in a situation say on a highway and have to stop suddenly then you would have the where withal to end up in a good situation.
The problem is that we don’t practice high speed skidding, but we all drive like we have. How many times have we, or seen others driving 70mph in back of someone’s bumper. Then one day they find themselves in a hospital wondering what happened to them. Scratching their heads and saying “why did this happen to me?”
In Psalm 78 is the story of how God wanted to protect His people. He provided great miracles for them, crossing the Red Sea, giving food to them, providing heating (pillar of fire at night) and air conditioning for them (cloud by day). But the Israelites became obstinate and would not want to follow after God’s way. It says in verse 41 (KJV) that they limited the Holy One of Israel.
It is as if God said today, keep your distance while driving, have a time interval between you and the next vehicle. Don’t drive past the speed limit, that way you are under the protection of inertia, response time, stopping distance for braking, and loving your neighbor by not going faster in a given situation to cause someone else harm.
If we disobey those laws that govern our earth then one day we will wake up in a hospital wondering what happened. When you practice driving to close and do it on a daily basis you instill the wrong way of driving so that it becomes second nature. That is why you become an accident waiting to happen. In life it is the same way, when we constantly do something wrong it will catch up to you, you will be a bad situation waiting to happen. We limit God in the process because God cannot overcome the very laws he put in place. Jesus came to die on the cross but to also to show us how to walk as Christians. It would behoove us to go against those principles that Jesus laid out for us to walk in.
One of the main ingredients in following Jesus is faith. By not having faith to step out in what God wants us to do we also limit God. We cannot please God without faith Heb 11:6. How many times has God spoken to you about something, or was trying to guide you through and you did not follow up on it. That is limiting God what He can accomplish in your life. The old hymn Trust and Obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. Trusting and obeying Jesus will not limit God.
Don’t be like the Israelites who went against what God was trying to accomplish through them. Don’t limit God, follow after Jesus and live a life of faith.
By G Jeremiah Williamson http://christianworldperspective.blogspot.com
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