“Embrace your human limitations as an opportunity to lean on God’s grace.”
Thoughts from daily Bible reading today – July 1, 2025
by: Mez Stead
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
When is the last time you boasted about your weakness? Not vented about or confessed your weakness, but truly spoke positively about your own human limitations. As a society, we don’t embrace limits; rather, we see them as signs of weakness and shame. Our culture tells us that if you’re not burning the candle at both ends, competing to be the best in every area of life, then you’re falling behind the curve.
But the story of Scripture tells us something remarkably different. God, whose power has no limitations, rested after He created the world, building rest into the very fabric of creation. Then he designed human beings with the limiting needs for sleep and nutrients and relationship and beauty, needs that were not punishments, but gifts. All that was needed, God provided, and it turned man and woman’s hearts towards their Creator. When God established the Sabbath as a command, it too was a gift to His people, a reminder that they need not strive because they were held in the hands of the Almighty, and they could rest there.
When Christ took on flesh, he limited His power so that God’s will could be done through Him. He identified with our every human limitation and served God perfectly whilst beholden to those limits.
As much as we may rail against it, God has designed you and me with limits. Yet somehow we think we can do better, push harder, stretch further, accomplish more within a twenty-four hour day than is humanly possible. We treat ourselves like machines designed solely for output. This is a tragic trade-off for the privilege we’ve been given: to be the image bearers of a God who is personal and relational. We are human, and to be human means to be limited. To be human is glorious!
If I buy into the lie that I am a machine, I will fall into one of two pits: I will either be puffed up with pride at the amount I am able to accomplish whilst neglecting the well-being of my body, mind, and soul; or, I will feel constantly frustrated by my limitations and loathe the humanizing gifts God has given me, seeing them as failings rather than opportunities to receive God’s abundant grace.
But there is a better way! I can choose to embrace my limitations as the gift that they are, embrace my humanity, and watch Christ’s power rest on me in new, life-giving ways.
Prayer
Lord, you have given me all that I need. Help me to glory in my weaknesses and to find your grace more than sufficient for each new day. May I learn what it means to rest in you.
Application
Embrace the limitations God has designed in you and live humanly, leaning humbly on His strength and not your own.
Related Reading
Genesis 2; Ecclesiastes 2:24-25; Psalm 16:6, 127:2; Isaiah 58:13-14; Hebrews 2:17-18, 4:9-10
Worship Resource
Paul Zach: The Lord is My Shepherd
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