Limitless God

I took the liberty of checking out the meaning of the word LIMITATION in a mathematics dictionary (just for the fun of it) and they defined it as: “A number whose numerical difference from a mathematical function is arbitrarily small for all values of the independent variables that are sufficiently close to but not equal to given prescribed numbers or that are sufficiently large positively or negatively.” How infinitely confusing that is!

So I decided to check it in one that was written in English and it says: “Something that bounds, restrains, or confines”. Now that’s better.

We all have limits. We have boundaries in every relationship (or we should have boundaries), we are restrained in many areas because of our experiences, and we are confined to our gifts, strengths, talents and abilities.

It is OK to have limitations. I cannot do it all or be it all – neither should I bother trying to do it all or be it all. The trouble starts when I need help. Growing up as a child I believed that my father could do it all, be it all, and afford it all (I discovered not too long into growth that he certainly could not do the latter). Now, though what my young mind believed from the very beginning was never true, it was worth believing it. It was worth believing his “all-ability” and “all-sufficiency”. I needed to believe that because the person that provides for me and protects me and soothes my pain cannot be exactly like me.

As it was with me and my father so should it be with us and God. God, as a matter of emphasis, cannot be exactly like us. I wrote an initial article that says we are not limitless, and I have more and more reasons daily to believe we actually are very limited creations. Our five senses – sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing –, for example, serve as portals to our environments and at the same time serve as limitations. For, though I can see some things, I cannot see all things. Though I can hear some things, a zillion more sounds are beyond me. Considering this I am quick to resolve that I need help! I need to believe in an “all-ability”, ‘all-sufficiency”, all-perceptive” person. Who else to fits this description but God? As King David would write:

Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.