Guten Morgen guys!! I think it’s my first ever post that I wrote in the morning. I just want to share my insight, fresh from the lalaland ^^.
I often thought about limitation in my life, and always wondered how we can quantify that limitation. Is our limitation defined when we really try our best to do something, yet it bloomed into failure? If I’m just a normal JC student with no ‘extra great’ achievement, will it be a limitation for me to dream about entering an Ivy league university for my undergraduate years? Certainly it is not. Indeed.
Something that we call as ‘limitation’ often leads us to stop trying, and then it makes us choosing an alternative pathway, which has safer and lower expectation, and it works magically. But it is indeed not what God desires us to be. If Thomas Alfa Edison stopped trying to make the light bulb after 6o trials, and thinking that it will indeed wither into failure, we might not be able to enjoy what we have today. Thomas might feel constipated on the creation of light bulb, but what kept him moving and trying?
It is called as dream.
(have a dream, visualize it, look upon God :D)
Dream inspires people to move on. In a sense, it works as a painkiller towards limitation. Simple illustration would be when my wisdom teeth were taken. The doctor must inject a painkiller to my mouth first, before he does the surgery. The dream here is “taking out the wisdom teeth”. The limitation here is thelocation of the wisdom teeth, which often lie under the deepest gum. The doctor need to “break’ the gum in order to take them off. All of us know that the process will be severely painful without a painkiller planted.
It’s the same in our life. Limitation is not a border that we cannot pass through. It is just an extremely high wall, but with a stair provided to leap upon it. The wall is strong, you cannot break it, but you can leap upon it. The staircase is always there to let you move to the other side! God has always provided a solution, but unfortunately many fail to see it. It is planted deep inside the “gum” that you need to extricate it out.
Yesterday I found something beautiful in the book of Ecclesiastes. After all the verses about how “All is vanity”, in Eccl 12:9, he said:
“because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge.”
It is a paradox of knowledge in Ecclesiastes. How on earth the Preacher still taught knowledge, though knowing that knowledge is just vanity?
But finally I understand the answer through my pastor few weeks ago. He said that the only constant in life is CHANGE. Amazing right?
God indeed knows that all thing in this earth are just vanity, we will not bring anything from this earth back to heaven after we died. But yet, He gives us wisdom and knowledge. He wants us to always change, change, and change. There must be a reason for it. Hey people, do you know that we have reason to be born in your particular era? God has a reason for it. God does not let Franklin D. Roosevelt to be born during the stone age or now right? :D!! God has prepared HIS people, each of us, in a special reason in a special time. It’s called as cultural mandate. He wants us to shine for Him in a particular society in a particular time. We have purposes. Get it?
So let’s be back again now to the idea of limitation. Now we know that God has a purpose for each one of us and He is God of changes. So what’s the relation with the topic of limitation? (*I bet some of you are confused now, I got stucked as well while writing this. It is hard. Believe me :p)
There is always improvement and improvement. There is no limit in record breaking, it continues to be broken and broken. If we know that God always give us new knowledge everyday, we should know that LIMITATION is just a MYTH!
Hence I would like to propose “Albert’s Dictionary” new definition of limitation:
Limitation: act of laziness causing restriction in life.
Limitation occurs when we stop trying and believing that there is a wall around us. The wall itself is not the limitation. The limitation is in our mind. We will it into existence.
Nevertheless, God never says that leaping upon our ‘limitation’ is easy. It is hard. Like my illustration of the wisdom teeth surgery, the process is painful. It is a secret for those who believe. The staircase is planted deep under the “gum” that we need to dissect the ‘gum’ deeply.
Ok, another illustration through my random endeavor. Trying is like finding a toilet in a shopping mall *albert, wht’s this???. On a particular day, I was at one of the new shopping mall at Orchard, and I needed to go to the toilet. The sign said that toilet is right away after taking a left turn from my position. But, after I took a left turn, another sign saying you must take another right turn. Then it went on until the 4th sign and I was still not in the toilet! I was thinking to find a toilet at another floor, (the floor that I’m familiar with). But my friend said (*who also wanted to go to the toilet), “just follow the sign, it might be the last turn”. So I nodded and took the last turn and I discovered the toilet! The toilet was just few meters away, but it is cleverly hidden behind a turn.
How many of us know, that we might just be like my “toilet” experience? Our destination might just be few meters away from you, but we stop trying just because of we are tired of failure? think again J
So, last but not least, I want to end this long complicated post with a simple conclusion:
Limitation is just a myth. However it will exist when we believe it is there. Henceforth, we need to have hope as our painkiller and never ever stop trying because it is not for us, it is for the Glory of our God! Always do your best and visualize your dream. Nothing comes close without trying.
Never give up :D
God bless
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