Fashioned Without Limits

It is what everyone desires. “If I only…”  or “If I had…”  or “If I didn’t” is the beginning of far too many sentences. It is the beginning of too many thought processes. It is the end of too many dreams, purposes, and untapped potential.

I’ve been guilty of it. Turning my dreams into something that is “practical” in order to one day see them accomplished. I take a great vision and break it down. In the name of being realistic, great dreams become dwarfed goals.

But what if we are just making excuses? I am finding that these “limitations” that we have, be it sickness, circumstances, culture, finances, or any other thing – it is merely a mask we wear because our real fear is having no limits.

We keep this mask of inferiority and being bound by our current circumstances that we find our comfort in, and then say, “For me to do _____, it would have to be a move of God.” But God is waiting for us to step out in faith and partner with Him. When will we believe that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength? (Philippians 4:13) When will we believe that His strength is made perfect in our weakness? (2 Corinthians 12:9)

As a child, we have this ability to create and embrace imaginary places. We have the ability to dream of things that today we would say are crazy, impossible, and childish. When a child dreams, the whole world changes. When we dream, we put on logical, personal, and time limitations.

This is not dreaming, but goal-oriented living.

In the loss of our ability to dream well, we also lose the passion to drive us. In our goal-oriented lives, we do not live to our fullest potential. Our potential is suffering in this state of mind. Instead of our dreams growing, they diminish in a world of realistic possibilities where you are not expected to flourish any more than your born circumstances, culture, and pattern of life.

Are you dreaming in the realm of the untapped potential in you? Or are you living in the “realistic” limitations that society has set for you? Or, perhaps the limitations you set for yourself.

I think of the boy who shared his lunch with Jesus - his five loaves and two fish went beyond what he probably dreamed of, (John 6:1--14) Don’t be afraid to bring God the little that you think you have. He will multiply that potential to exceed the need and the dream. What if that little boy kept his fish and bread and kept his lunch for his family? Your dreams are bigger than you. Your potential is limitless when you give it to God.

In a dream, there are no limitations — only obstacles.

You are fashioned without limits. What has God put in your heart to do? Your passion is measured by your pursuit. How are you stepping out in faith to see those dreams accomplished?

A God-sized dream requires child-like faith.