“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written,
“’He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.’
“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.” 2 Corinthians 9:8-11
“[He] is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us.” Ephesians 3:20
The Scriptures, in communicating the nature of God Almighty, speak loudly to His limitlessness, His capacity that is beyond bounds our feeble human minds can comprehend. In this vast earth, there is no need beyond God’s supply, no desperation beyond His ability. No grief beyond His balm, no impossibility beyond His possible. No fear beyond His safety, no confusion beyond His clarity, no chaos beyond His order. There is no rebellion beyond His love, no sin beyond His redemption and forgiveness, no shame beyond His restoration. (1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 94:9-10; 139:1-4,7-12; Isaiah 49:15-16)
Compared to God’s infinite, we are bound by finite flesh with limited capacity to grasp His wide edges. We self-impose boundaries on what we think He wants to hear, be involved in, and do for our sake. Yet, Jesus displayed His limitless love by dying for us, and lives to give all things and meet every need. There are no boundaries in what we can bring to Jesus, no limits on His boundless wonderful and might to meet and overcome. With our Lord, we will never be censored, ostracized, held at bay. We have no longing He does not understand, no hurt He has not known, no cry- articulated or not- He does not hear. (Matthew 11:28-29; Romans 8:31-32)
So why do we live on the fringes of His capacity and care? What human drive keeps us from tapping the divine? What concerns, meaningful work, relationships can we entrust to Him anew, and access His limitless power and grace?
“O worship the King all-glorious above,
O gratefully sing his power and his love:
our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,
pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.
O tell of his might and sing of his grace,
whose robe is the light, whose canopy space.
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
and dark is his path on the wings of the storm.
Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
in you do we trust, nor find you to fail.
Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end,
our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!
O measureless Might, unchangeable Love,
whom angels delight to worship above!
Your ransomed creation, with glory ablaze,
in true adoration shall sing to your praise!” ~Robert Grant (1833)
Father, draw me up from faithless barricades into Your boundless possibilities.
As the rain and snow 