God's Steps Often Begin Where Yours End

​Our limits sometimes frustrate us, but they never frustrate God.

What frustrates God is when we allow our limits to become the reason we do less than we can do. When we stop at the doorway of what’s possible because the next step suddenly feels impossible.

Steven Furtick says, “When you do what you can do, God will do what you cannot do.” He’s not suggesting that God shows up to reward effort. He’s simply pointing out that when the future feels beyond our power, God shows up to remind us it’s not beyond his.

God often waits until our strength ends - not because he’s late, but because we’re finally ready to let him take over.

But it’s easy to believe God is late, isn’t it? And once we believe God isn’t going to show up, it becomes easy to stop showing up ourselves.

When we believe our future, our dreams, and our goals are totally reliant on us, we measure progress only by OUR steps.

And how often do we quit when we feel like we aren’t making any progress at all? Quit before we reach the place where our footprints become God’s. Quit before we get to hear Him say, “I’ll take it from here.”

Some days it’s hard for me to understand that God is behind me saying go, beside me saying we’ve got this, and out in front of me waiting to say I’ll take it from here - all at the same time.

It’s hard to understand this on an ordinary day. But it’s impossible to ever understand it if I quit walking toward the places God has called me to walk.

So if you take a step this week and feel like you’re getting nowhere, consider that it may not be a sign to stop - but an invitation to keep going.

God’s power is waiting - not where you decide it’s time to quit, but where God knows you can’t take another step.

Keep stepping. The power is waiting. What feels like the last step might be the one where you discover you're never walking alone.