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Don't Limit God

  Philippians 4:19 tells us that God will meet our needs according to his riches. To fully understand what this means we have to understand who and what God is. God is infinite and must be seen as having no limits. Whenever we think of him as having limits, he is no longer God. He becomes a man-made god, like a statue that doesn't move. The only way to think of God is as being boundless in all that he is and does. He is not bound by time and space, he can see the beginning and the end. As humans, the concept of an infinite God is hard to understand ( Psalm 147:5 ). Everything we see has a limited lifespan, so thinking of someone as being limitless is difficult. Psalm 119:96 speaks of perfection, a worldly perfection, however, perfection in this world is not real perfection. It has its own limitations. In his commentary, Matthew Henry uses three examples to illustrate how worldly perfection is meaningless. Goliath was seen as the perfect man of war, but David overcame him. I n 2