How much is too much? Isn’t that determined by my own internal clock, just as with happiness it is a limitation mechanism defined, maintained and protected by me? It is just as with the determination of what is a good or bad day that is within my control yet I somehow have been trained to externalize, diminish or victimize every discipline in which I have some manner of control. Too much is when I fall on the ground and have frankly given all that I can give and got’s no more. Or too much is when I have surpassed my allotted or experiential capacity to deal with the circumstances and therefore I throw my hands up and shut down. Or too much is that glorious point at which I reach the end of my time, faculties, talents, treasures, imagination or ideals and finally, albeit finally cry out to God to engage the filling of His Holy Spirit.
Paul was very clear in his teachings through the Holy Spirit that we ought be thankful for that moment when we are at our weakest for that is the point where God is all we got and also the point where God is strongest. The proverbial point where we are forced to surrender and acknowledge that the thing we are expected to overcome is beyond our capability. Wouldn’t it be grand if since we have established that too much is a self-determined, self-defined limitation that we adjusted that understanding to allow God to step in and do the impossible from the outset, without having to reach that personal point of exhaustion before surrendering to His Spirit?
God is going to always ask more of me then I was ever capable of giving, for that is the nature of being an ambassador filled with the Holy Spirit of God through which we can do the impossible? If I knew that I couldn’t do the impossible before I started the impossible but I fully understood that within me resided the Creator of all things the Doer of the Impossible, wouldn’t it make let’s say marginal sense to get out of the way and let him do the impossible before I needed to demonstrate my inability to do the impossible over and over again? I mean Christianity is quite logical, even if we don’t want to employ the logic or think it simply spiritual.
So how much is too much? I don’t know, since the Sovereign God lives within each of us and He invented the plans to overcome the impossible, then is there ever going to be something that is “too much” for any Christian? I know that hurts your brain and I am a horrible beast for causing your contemplation upon realms of the universe outside our own dimension, Too much? I think not. In Jesus’ Name I pray for you to ride the road past impossibility to the probability and possibility dictated by a Holy, Righteous and Limitless God living within you.