Take the Limits Off

“Although we may be products of our past, our past does not predict our future.”

Loren Thornburg

We all love a good story. But, what I find even better is the good story that is true. Like the recent movie Blindside of the family that took in a young man, Michael Oher with no family and no place to go who is now a professional football player. The movie may have taken some dramatic liberties yet the story line remains the same that a young man’s life was changed in a way he never dreamed possible. Who he was when that family took him in was very much a product of all that had happened to him growing up. Who we are is largely impacted by the things that have happened to us and the ways that they have molded us. Yet his past did not determine his future. Change is possible. It’s not just in the movies. It’s happening all the time. The seemingly impossible that becomes possible. Sometimes it comes and gets us but other times we have to go and get it. Either way it is possible. So either way we can live outside the limits of what has been. We can take the limits off of ourselves. Think beyond your past, dream beyond where you’ve been, see beyond your limitations. Take the limits off for what’s been does not mean what will be.

“They will rebuild the ancient ruins, repairing cities long ago destroyed. They will revive them, though they have been empty for many generations.”

Isaiah 61:4 NLT

We have been called despite our past. It’s easy to look back and see all that hasn’t happened and almost without realizing it assume that it couldn’t happen. When you have known things one way for so long it can feel beyond possible to have things any other way. We all have our things whether it be things we’ve longed for that have not come to fruition, dreams that have died and so we’ve stopped dreaming, lies we’ve believed, addictions we’ve been caught in, depression that we’ve lived under, the list goes on and on. Yet the Lord can revive the ruins, the emptiness, the destruction. Time is not a factor for Him no matter how long things have operated in a certain way. Although it feels like it has been this way for so long and there is no way it could ever be different that is not as great as the ancient ruins that God rebuilt and not as great as the greatness and power of our Lord. His work is not at all dependent on what has been. So take the limits off of our God and off of what He can do through you when you are holding onto Him.