Part of maturing as a Christian is learning to identify and live within the

limits God places on our lives. There are limits to our capacity, our

resources, our gifting and our calling. When we push beyond the boundaries

of where God would have us we end up causing ourselves and others pain, and

harming our relationship with him. We do this inevitably when we reject

God’s lordship of our lives and choose to become arbiters of our own

destiny. Jesus calls us back to himself. He loves us too much to see us

hurt ourselves by stretching ourselves too thin. We can trust his limits to

enable us to thrive.

By Ed Flint