Putting God in a Box

We serve a limitless God, but in the routine walk of life, it is not shocking to see how many of us usually forget this. Our God, the God of Abraham, Moses, Jacob and David, is the same God we serve today. We all know the amazing things that God did for these men of faith- he parted the Red Sea, he fed His people bread from Heaven, He led a few hundred men to conquer an army of thousands and many other exciting things. These are the stories we heard in Sunday school and read from our Children’s Bible books, but sadly for most of us, this is where we left them.

The Old Testament God seems so ancient and distant to our seemingly modern and fast-paced lives. Our “modern “ lives have a timetable so God has to fall in there somewhere, and for most of us, Sunday morning is His time. All the praise, prayer, song, and obedience is done within that set time, outside of which, God and all that is “religious” would be definitely misplaced. We “modern” Christians have confined God in time and space and deciding for him when He can move and act. I was reading a Bible verse at work a few weeks back and a colleague saw me and said
“Eish, Florence, hope you are not starting a cult”- My heart wept!

Friends, allow here me to me share with you an excerpt from Andrew Wommack’s article:

“Many people think there can be no such thing as a limit on God. They see that as removing His divinity. A god that can be limited isn't really a god in many people's thinking.

I will say this: God isn't personally limited by anything or anyone. But when it comes to us receiving from Him, we can limit what He wants to do through us or for us. God doesn't sovereignly do what He wants with us. We have to cooperate.

God Himself is limitless, but what He can accomplish is limited. Not because of any lack of power or ability on His part, but because of the part we have to play.
Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us..." Many people stop after the first comma and proclaim God can do anything, but that's not the truth of this verse. God has limited Himself to what we believe Him to do. If there isn't the power of faith working in us, then He can't, or you could say, will not, work independent of us. “But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead” James 2:20

God is who He is, regardless of what we think or believe. If we don't believe God is real, that doesn't make Him cease to exist. As far as our experiences go, we won't encounter Him until we change that opinion.

Take salvation for example. Second Peter 3:9 says, "The Lord is... not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." You can't make it any plainer than that. It is not God's will for people to perish, but they do. Why? Not because God wills it, but because God gave them a free will, and they choose to reject God's provision for their salvation.

That's a very sobering thought! People don't like that truth because it makes them responsible. Most people don't want to be responsible for their lives. They like to think that God just sovereignly makes things happen in their lives. That way, they can blame God for the mess they are in and say, "God is teaching me something or making me a better person." But that's not what God's Word says.

The Lord willed for the Israelites to enter into the Promised Land in a short period of time. But the generation that came out of Egypt died during the forty years in the wilderness. That wasn't God's will. That was because of their own choices.”