Job 38:3-11 “Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements – surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut in the seas with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed?’”

Relative to the entire world, it is sometimes quite easy to see ourselves as little fish in a really big pond. Obstacles, like mountains, have seemingly no way over and no way around. Because of man’s finite perspective, everything he perceives in life is fit neatly into the world his mind observes. The problem is that God does not fit into any world that we can understand or even imagine – you can’t put something which is limitless, like God, into something that has limits! Rather than see how your dream fits into God’s grand design, you instead try to see how God fits into your life! In order to experience your dream (and life in general) in a God way, you must knock down the limits you have placed on what is possible. It does no good to push them out because they will never be able to contain the creator of all things. Job’s mind could grasp the reality of what he could see, but the power behind what created all those things went far beyond anything Job could possibly imagine. Like Job, when your perception of God exceeds the limits of your understanding, every obstacle standing between you and your dream suddenly shrinks into insignificance!

Pray: “Dear Father, like you did for Job, help me to knock the limits off my understanding of you. Grow so unbelievable large, Lord, that anything that stands against me seems puny and weak by comparison. As I grow to comprehend the depth of your power and awesomeness, I will not allow my own limitations to hinder me, for I know that your strength lies in my weakness and as you have set the limits and boundaries for all things, so too have you designed the path that leads to my dream. What have I to fear, O God, when you are with me. Thank you, Father, in Jesus’ precious name - Amen.”