Knowing
Your
Limitations

In the 1973 movie “Magnum Force” Clint Eastwood, after seeing his adversary meet his own demise, 'Dirty Harry' uttered the famous line, “Man’s Got To Know His Limitations.” While a popular movie quote, this says a lot about the hubris that some may unknowingly realize how they live their life — and the great fall that such unbridled pride can and will bring.

For example, Pontius Pilot stood authoritatively before Jesus. Frustrated at Jesus’ non-responses he said, “Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?” to which Jesus pointedly responded, ”Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above.” While Pilot was even warned by a dream of his wife not to sentence Jesus, he did so anyway - and like Lieutenant Briggs in that movie - due to their pride both he and Pilot met their demise.

At times, we all act like Pilot.

In our hubris we self-assuredly think that we can Do or SAY or BE anything we want, yet the reality is our life is like a vapor that can disappear at the next breath. When we lose sight of what truly are our limitations and don’t recognize that the true source of our power comes from God and show no thankfulness for this we will unwittingly let our ego define boundaries of false limitations. Whenever this happens, as today’s scripture quote from Proverbs cautions us, the end result of our PRIDE is DESTRUCTION.

Friend, we’re all guilty at one time or another of underestimating our limitations. Our talents, mind, appearance, skills and each heartbeat are in fact 'On Loan From God' and not of ourselves. Once we realize that everything we are is a gift from above a genuine perspective on what pride we have becomes clear.

We all have Limitations, and we all have Gifts.

The key to both is knowing the difference between the two.

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