Steve Nash is often considered one of the quiet heros and blue collar workers of the NBA. And yesterday he embodied all those qualities when his eye was split open, swollen nearly shut and returned to play and played with a vengeance. Something about his heroics made me think ‘This guy knows his limitations.” Somewhere in the past Nash has been hurt and forced himself to play through it, learning what new limits he is able to push past. It may not have been the same injury but at some point Nash learned that he could go longer, even if he was hurt.
Mark Batterson says that the ‘greatest risk is the one we don’t take.’ I am convinced that this is true for all of us. There are 100′s of guys in the NBA that wouldn’t have come back with an eye split open. Was it a risk to come back? Sure he could have been hurt worse, or even played terrible. But he took the risk. How many people can say that about each of us? ‘They took the risk when a lesser person would have thrown in the towel?’
No question life is painful and hard at times…but have we pushed on believing that the Holy Spirit really does empower us? I am also convinced that far more often than we realize or acknowledge God walks us into places that we cant just push through or overcome on our own, situations that require a miracle and a recognizable action on His part to succeed and survive. How many times have we given up, thrown in the towel before we reached the point of no return? The point where God walks us to so He can have all the credit for the success of a situation. How often do we quit when we think or realize we cant accomplish or survive something on our own? What risks dont we take because we know that it cant happen under our power? How many missed God stories are there because we didnt know our limitations and thought we could do less than we actually could…stormed off ploped in the corner with our heads hanging and told God we knew He didnt care? Meanwhile He is asking us to take a risk and make it about Him and not about us.
Whats our limit? Words pretty clear…if He is in it…there isnt one…take a risk…dont quit, and learn what it means to push past limitations. Its the stuff that God sized stories are made of.
1 Cor 15:10
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