limits are for your benefit
i got limitations
limitations on who I can be for people and how I can show up
can't be everyone
can't be all things
i can only be little ol' me
i can only sink into humility when I recognize I can never be everything
won't be the star of the track team or graduate from an ivy league
but I can hold fast to the one who made me
i can hold on to who I've been created to be
i can love me enough and shine my light for others to see
that this lamp i got is just me embracing all that i am and all that i'll never be
it's focusing on what I've been given - my quirks, my story, the way I move and think
how my upbringing has shaped me
and how my roots have developed me
and made me into the person that others see
my hearts on display as I speak
letting others get a glimpse of where i've been set free
and even where i'm still held back
can't help but smile
can't help but delight
because I know that where I am must be just right
because God is guiding me, the Lord of Heaven's Armies is on my side
not against me, nah he all around me
going before me
makin' a way
protecting me from my past and them old patterns that lead me astray
guidin' my decisions, causin' my heart to be anchored to his mercy and forgiveness
i'm livin' in my limitations
i'm embracing all i've been given
this body, my family… this life is all i have
when will I stop seeing what I lack?
Jesus was limited by human skin
living his life at a set date and time
his limitations went so far as to die
yet "...God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,” colossians 1:19
so i can be pleased with the fullness I see in the midst of limitations in front of me
the type of limits that would lay his beautiful life down
little did i know my God was limitless
the only one who could take all of time and condense it into the only moment that matters: Jesus dying on a cross
the perfect display of limits lost
it's in the loss that I'm grounded
because I recognize that it was his limitations that he lived in purpose-filled persistence
his limits are the one's establishin' my existence
and now I'm seeing my limitations as benefits
layin out my steps
may not know my next but I know my limitations will never lead to me to less
they can only lead me to more- more of God, more of Him, more of everlasting livin'
I'm led to more as I'm found in the outpour of His love
God, you're all I want
more of Jesus, less of me
help me stay in alignment with who you've called me to be
not anyone else, just me… because that is where I am the most free
i'm the most free when I'm submitted to the changing of your spirit and still in alignment with the personality i've been given
infusing me with courage when I'd rather shrink
shrinking back because I'd rather focus on my lack
but i'm getting off this track
sayin' goodbye to this train of prideful living
and gettin' on the path of truth-filled decisions
won't be weighed down by all them limits
scarcity won't be my name when i'm choosing to live in His saving grace