Partner And Child

There was a time in my life when I was aware of not limits. I feared none and faced none. That was the time in my life when all I knew was possibilities and to limit me was almost obscene. Times changed and I began to operate in this world. I started working at a company called Pax Insurance and that is when I began to realize that it is easy to set boundaries for ourselves in a way that God stops to be a factor.

There is something about being able to do certain things for ourselves that makes it very tempting for us to assume complete responsibility of our lives in a way that God is pushed to the corner. When a child is still helpless it’s easy for them to rely on their parents totally. They believe it’s the parents to carry them, feed them, educate them, shelter them and so on. They believe to the end and the end in this case means, until the parent fails. Now, much as we are not supposed to remain children for all of our lives, we are encouraged to receive the kingdom of God as little children, to believe to the end and to believe in a God of no limits.

I am reminded of a very lovely story that happens in a home. A father had two sons. The younger of the sons walks to the dad and demands for his share of the father’s property. The loving father gives the son his share and that’s settled. But that particular son is not content with just having his share of the father’s property, he proposes to move far away from home and any thing that reminds him of home. He travels to a far away land and adopts new tradition, new beliefs and new behavior. With each new adoption he forsakes his old ways, he forsakes his former self.

The other son does not ask for anything, he simply tills the fathers land and keeps trying to please his father hoping that the father will see it in himself to give him what already belongs to him. What we should note at this point is that by this time the father had divided his property between both his sons. This division however was not to see his sons independent of him or dependent of him. The intention was to have both sons work with him in a partnership, to know that what he has is theirs as well. To believe that from that point they shared expectations and obligations, desires and passions. That was the original plan, to le the sons choose, choose when and how, where and what but choose with the Father.

Both sons missed the point and the father let them take their journey of learning.

We are very much like either of those sons today. Many of us have stopped asking and believing. Many believe God is more pleased with them when they spend an entire week praying, while others believe it is up to them to get rich and build the church. They believe they are supposed to make it or die.

There is nothing wrong with those mindsets. It is just a question of perspectives. God calls us to work with him. More like the time of Nehemiah. With one hand build and the other hold weapons of warfare. We are supposed to be independent in God. We operate with Him, and that’s where His delight is. In children who reign with Him. He wants us casting sicknesses far away rather than crying for Him. It may be comforting but then we limit our own growth and forfeit most of or rights as kings and priests in this new Christ Kingdom.

The call has been as old as man is. Adam in the Garden of Eden called to have dominion and yet keep conversations with God in the Cool of day. Imagine such privileges; they are still alive today for many of us.

This is what brings me to the next point. If we are to believe that way we shall learn to remove boundaries. We used to believe that we would build our houses by a certain date that we could not cheat on our spouses that we would succeed no matter what. We believed a lot while we believed like children in this unlimited God. We believed right but only until we let the circumstances of life shape our mindsets. At that point we even bent the word of God to suit our conditions. How wrong we were and how wrong we have remained.

I charge you today to believe again to believe like a child to the end to be as unlimited as God is to walk in expectation of His goodness and ability and to refuse to let the circumstances of Life dictate boundaries for you.
Consider this passage.

1st Peter (Amplified Bible)
12It was then disclosed to them that the services they were rendering were not meant for themselves and their period of time, but for you. [It is these very] things which have now already been made known plainly to you by those who preached the good news (the Gospel) to you by the [same] Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Into these things [the very] angels long to look!
13So brace up your minds; be sober (circumspect, morally alert); set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace (divine favor) that is coming to you when Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is revealed.
14[Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].
15But as the One Who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.
16For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy.(A)
17And if you call upon Him as [your] Father Who judges each one impartially according to what he does, [then] you should conduct yourselves with true reverence throughout the time of your temporary residence [on the earth, whether long or short].
18You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition from [your] forefathers, not with corruptible things [such as] silver and gold,
19But [you were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a [sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot.
20It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you.
21Through Him you believe in (adhere to, rely on) God, Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.
22Since by your obedience to the Truth through the [Holy ] Spirit you have purified your hearts for the sincere affection of the brethren, [see that you] love one another fervently from a pure heart.
23You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal [d]origin ([e]seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.
24For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like [the] flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off,
25But the Word of the Lord ([f]divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the good news which was preached to you.(B)