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What do you do with a part of yourself you wish you could change?
Maybe you feel limited by your personality, your abilities, your age, or something your body can’t do. It’s easy to compare yourself with someone else and believe that if you just tried harder, you could finally become enough.
In this episode, John Ortberg invites us to practice radical acceptance of our limitations. Moses, Gideon, Jeremiah, and Abraham each had reasons to think they weren’t the right person for what God was asking. Yet their limitations did not limit God. John explores how humility can open us to wonder, why Jesus chose to embrace the limits of human life, and what Paul means when he says we carry treasure in “jars of clay.”
What limitation have you been fighting? Today, consider what it would mean to offer it to God as a place where you might meet him.
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:6–7; Exodus 4:10–12; Judges 6:12–15; Jeremiah 1:6–8; John 1:14
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0:00 I can’t, but God can
0:47 What limitation frustrates you?
2:13 From rejection to acceptance
3:06 Why trying harder isn’t always the answer
3:54 Your limitations don’t limit God
5:10 Humility, wonder, and the sublime
7:18 The people God chooses
8:50 Jesus chose human limitation
10:20 Treasure in jars of clay
11:10 Offer your limitation to God
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