My son loves to go out and play around the premises of our house. But we would control the time and frequency with which he does it. We would just lock the door. He’d go and sit. Recently, I noticed he’s attempting to open the door by himself. The other day, I saw him open the door lock and stepped out. He has grown beyond his limitations.
Friend, are you growing beyond your limitations (Philippians 4:13)? What are those limits that life and people have placed on your life? How are you handling them? Most times, people resort to fate when it seems they cannot go past some limitations. But God wants you to step up and grow beyond your limits. Like David, God wants you to leap over the walls (Psalm 18:29).
The first place that limitations exist is in the mind (Proverbs 23:7). If you don’t deal with the limitations in your mind, you are not likely to break external limits. The limitations in our minds are caused by what we have heard, seen, or experienced. This is why we have been admonished to guard our hearts with all diligence (Proverbs 4:23).
What have you heard or seen that has placed limits in your mind? Who has told you that you cannot do certain things or get to certain places (Jeremiah 35:1-10)? Until you learn to interpret what you hear or see in the light of God’s word and God’s plans for your life, you would always be limited in life. Caleb and Joshua did not allow the giants they saw or the report they heard to get into their minds (Numbers 13:30).
Limits are meant to be broken. One good thing about mountains is that they don’t grow. But we have the capacity to grow (2 Peter 3:18). Like my son eventually opens the door by himself, you also can grow beyond the limits placed over you. Rather than allowing the limits around your life to stop you, take up the challenge to grow past them (1 Timothy 4:12-16).
Despite being small in stature, Zacchaeus broke the limit by climbing the sycamore tree (Luke 19:1-10). What sycamore tree do you need to climb this season? What program or course do you need to enrol in to give you an advantage in life? Prayer is a sycamore tree everyone should climb (Habakkuk 2:1-4). In the final analysis, it is the man who does not pray that will remain limited in life.
‘Demola Awoyele
Lead Pastor,
Destiny Impact Church
Akure, Nigeria