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Limitations


 

Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 

Limitations of Human Wisdom

16 When I tried to gain wisdom
and to observe the activity on earth—
even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night—

17 then I discerned all that God has done:
No one really comprehends what happens on earth.
Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it.
Even if a wise person claimed that he understood,
he would not really comprehend it

 

Limitations

 

Who sets limitations ... it must be the man himself?

Limitless in power is the Lord.

He can take a sinner and save him by His Grace

and transform a futile life into forever.

 

Do you think that God ... through knowing all the needs

will transform a fleshly man into the spiritual one?

Giving life more abundantly ... His and mine as done

intertwined in spirit ... in thought and will as one?

 

Faith in Christ makes me a regenerated believer.

Faith through Grace of God ... blesses me that way.

Obedience however to The Holy Spirit,

makes me what I need to be ... a spiritual man today.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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