I’ve been thinking a lot lately—not just randomly, but deliberately—about what God may be calling me to do in the future. It has occurred to me that I have to think out of the box (“my” box), that is, not limited by my own imagination. Shelly Lazarus, former CEO of one of the most prestigious New York advertising firms, says, "If you can think it, you can do it." Normal Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Is that biblical? On the other hand, Henry Ford said, “Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.” Well, I don’t want to think more highly of myself than I should, nor be limited by whether “I” think I can. I want to be thinking what God can do.
The apostle Paul said, God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Eph. 3:20). Though Jesus defied the laws of nature, cast out demons, restored crippled limbs, healed the blind and deaf, and raised the dead, he proclaimed “whoever believes in me will do even greater things than these” (John 14:12). I don’t know about you, but I can hardly imagine doing greater things than Jesus did. But that’s my problem. I’m limited by “my” thoughts and “my” imagination.
The likely interpretation of Jesus’ words is that while He was limited by time and space, we would take the Gospel to the entire world and where the spiritual realm, called the kingdom of God, would have no end. No limitations. Jesus knew the power of God would work through us to accomplish these “greater things” and the “good works” He Himself created us to do (Eph. 2:10), We must be vigilant with ourselves not to be limited by what we can think or imagine. We must have higher thoughts (Col. 3:2-3).
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