It is so easy, natural even, to fail to see the Lord’s Hand in our problems!

To (maybe without even realizing it) think, “Even God cannot solve this one!”

Or to let that hardship (trial) “wear you down,” or “consume your strength,” or “dull your optimism,” or “rob you of hope!”

And it is at this very point I want to remind you, remind us … DO NOT FORGET THAT GOD IS ALMIGHTY!

In other words, DO NOT COUNT LIGHTLY THE POWER AND ABILITY AND WISDOM OF THE GREAT (AND LOVING) GOD YOU SERVE, WE SERVE!

Earlier this morning I found this little verse (a fragment really) in Psalm 78:41. A Passage written to record Israel’s failure in the wilderness. “Yea, they limited the Holy One of Israel.”

Can our doubt, our malaise, actually “limit” God?

Can our unbelief and negativity do this?

Is this not, Matthew 13:58, an example of doubt doing just that, hindering Jesus’ Miracle Working willingness? “And He (our Lord) did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

Wow!

Friend, DO NOT FAIL to trust God’s power and willingness (in His Own time) to intervene in your dark situation. Please, do not limit Him in your life!

Like Israel did.

“Yea, they limited the Holy One of Israel.”

The little verb for “limit” here is “tavah.” It is in this case a “hapax legomenon,” a technical term that means “a word found once and once only” in a specific body of literature. Thus our “tools” for defining the word, studying it in more detail, are restricted.

But, beyond doubt, the King James (Version) translators felt that God could be “limited” by sin, sin on our part! (Other Bible scholars feel that synonyms of “limited” here include “provoked, pained, vexed,” and even “frustrated.”) But I best like “limited.”

Whatever your painful situation right now, seemingly unbearable at times … DO NOT LIMIT YOUR GREAT GOD in the agony you’re suffering! He can “move in” to help you, even this very day!

He is able!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell