"You have... this mountain long enough; turn... " - Deuteronomy
2:3 NKJV

Do you live overloaded and overwhelmed? Like a driver who's lost his way,
instead of stopping to ask for direction you increase your speed until you
run out of fuel and end up on the side of the road. We quote the promise: 'I
can do everything through him who gives me strength' (Philippians 4:13 NIV).
But God doesn't promise we can do everything we want to do, or everything
people expect us to do, or everything others do. God will only give us grace
to do what He calls us to do. Isaiah writes: 'Even the youths shall faint
and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on
the Lord shall renew their strength..' (Isaiah 40:30-31 NKJV). Few things
humble us like failure. God will let us circle the same mountain over and
over until the scenery becomes so familiar that we're forced to stop and ask
for direction-especially when we know in our heart that we're not where God
wants us to be. In Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer writes: 'I was raised
in a cultur
e that insisted I could do anything; that I was without limits, given
enough energy and commitment on my part; that God made things that way, and
all I had to do was get with the program. My troubles began when I started
to slam into my limitations... in the form of failure.' What's your most
painful limitation? The one you won't admit? The one you don't want anybody
to see? Acknowledge it. Seek honest feedback. Ask for God's help in
accepting the limits He's placed on you for your own protection. There is a
limit to everything. We can only go too far. AFter that....then what? Is it
corruption, is it cheating, is it gossip, is it......you name it. There is a
limit to it all. Look deep down yourself and search your soul...honestly.
Sit yourself down and tell the You in you enough is enough. Start a fresh.
Let your BEFORE rest in peace and start an AFTER with a new attitude and a
focus. Believe me my dear, you will get there. With Gods grace.
Be of good cheer.