Who Is Limiting God?

I heard a story of a woman who had a very serious problem; a problem that would shatter her world. She had just lost her husband she was dead broke and deeply in debt. Creditors were beating down her door demanding payment. They were demanding payment in blood if she did not come up with the money she owed. This did not happen yesterday but it could have. This story is found in 2 Kings 4:1-7.
Her husband was a man of God and so she went to another man of God for counsel. The prophet Elisha asks her what she had in the house. She said, “Nothing save a pot of oil.” “Ok”, the preacher told her, “go borrow as many vessels as you can from your neighbors. Then go home and you and your sons start pouring out the oil into the borrowed vessels.” Now I am sure she must have thought the preacher was crazy, but she did as he said. As she was filling the borrowed vessels each one was filled and she asked for another until there were no more empty vessels. She then noticed that her oil pot was still full. Back to the preacher she went asking what she needed to do. “Simple”, he said. “Go sell the oil and pay your debt then you and your sons live of the rest.”
Look at exactly what she was told to do in verse 3. “Go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.” She went and borrowed what she thought she needed not really knowing what or how many to borrow. God did what he said he would do. He blessed her to the extent she let Him. Why? Well we don’t know how many she borrowed but we do know it was enough to get her out of debt and have money to live on. God blessed out of one small jar of oil He solved her problems.
Two things had to happen here, first she had to ask God for help and second she had to trust him and do what she was instructed to do. Had she used current logic she most likely would have starved and lost her sons.
Even though this woman followed exactly what God led her to do there was a limiting factor. She borrowed as many empty jars she thought she needed. What do you think would have happened had she actually borrowed from all her neighbors and had empty jars all over the house, yard, and basement and stacked in every empty space she could find? What would her neighbors think? Had she lost her mind? Yes she was faithful, yes she followed instructions, but did she still limit God? You see we limit God when we think we know more that he does. So then the only thing that limits God is us. God’s riches are untold and His love is unlimited.
You have a problem talk to God. Don’t know God? Then go find a man of God an ask to be introduced.