I was thinking about the speed limit today.

Who sets those limits? How do they determine what is safe? Why are they increasing?

Logic tells me that the speed limit has gone up because the roads are better and the cars are safer than they used to be. Cars today seem comfortable at 70, 80 miles per hour. My first car would rattle your teeth out of your head at 55. Not so today. Cars are quiet and smooth at much higher speeds than just a few years ago. Airbags make them safer. Car seats make our kids safer. Roads are smoother and better maintained. Why shouldn’t speed limits increase to match these advances?

What about my efforts to advance the Kingdom? Who sets those limits? It certainly isn’t God. He is limitless. He is all powerful. If there is a limit set on what I can do for the Kingdom, it’s mine. If there is a limit on what God’s Church can accomplish, it is the fault of the church. God wants to reach everyone on the earth. He chose to work through us. If we don’t reach everyone, it is because we have set limits on how fast, how far, how hard we can go.

If I can work at 60 miles per hour, what can I do to raise the limit. What advances can I make that will let me go 70, 80, 100? How can I let God raise my threshold?

God, please don’t let me set a limit on what you can do through me, amen.