Every situation has boundaries.
Humanity lives on Earth in an air envelope, and we must stay inside that air bubble if we want to survive. Even to climb to the top of Earth’s highest mountains is beyond most people’s endurance.
How fast can a person run? For years, the four-minute mile was considered beyond the limit of what was possible. We’ve managed to break that, but only barely. The three-and-a-half-minute mile is still out there, unbroken and considered insurmountable.
Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose, the largest experimental aircraft ever designed. Constructed in 1947, it’s taken over sixty years for the design of the Stratolaunch (planned launch, 2019) to surpass that of Hughes’ beast.
Yet, here’s the thing. Each of these limits is constraining only in certain ways. Put a spacecraft around a human, and the upper limits of the atmosphere are no longer a problem. Strap a person in a jet-powered car, and that mile vanishes in under 20 seconds.
As far as the Spruce Goose, take a gander at the old Saturn V rocket that launched NASA’s space program into the sky. The Goose may have been designed as an aircraft, but it never really flew, only achieving one test flight and barely getting airborne. The Saturn V may not be an airplane, but it boosted humanity into space.
Each of these examples illustrates our limits—and provides a limit-breaker to overcome them.
Luke 1:37 gives us our limit-breaker in God.
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Are we trapped by our surroundings? We’ve got God to break us free.
Are we lagging behind others? God is our jet-engine propulsion.
Do our achievements pale in comparison to our dreams? God can launch us into the ether, and we can achieve in him what we can’t do on our own.
God knows no limits, and when we follow him, we can be as successful as we can dream.
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