One of the reasons for my great hope in Jesus is his inability to be fenced in by limitations. For me, I live a life full of limitations. I am finite. My resources are numbered. Time, space, knowledge and even my own body severely limit what I can do and what I can’t. I cannot control outcomes or people. Everywhere I go I am reminded of the borders and the fences and the walls that hem me in.

          But not Jesus. Jesus demonstrated that there was no border that he could not cross, that there was no problem erected that he could not take apart, and that there was no impossibility that he could not make possible. For instance, Jesus walked on water and even told storms to calm down. That is not humanly possible, but he did it. He commanded demons to go into pigs, and they did. That’s not something you see every day. When he met the incurable health issues he simply used a heavenly cure not available to doctors with instant results. Even bad decisions and deeply ingrained sins that no human intelligence or psychology could possibly fix were no match for his forgiveness. And what about death? Death is the final uncrossable boundary with absolutely no cure until Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25).  He even raised the dead thereby demonstrating his uncontainable power. Jesus respected no boundary that I find I cannot cross. Maybe I can call that “fourth dimensional power” because it is out of the ordinary.

          This aspect of who Jesus is gives me great hope. Even though I am severely limited in life with the tools that I have been given, I have been invited to place my faith in and call upon the one who has unlimited resources, supernatural tools and abilities that range beyond anything in this natural realm that I am subject to. I am linked to a God of all knowledge who knows exactly what to do, who has all power and can do what he needs to do, and has complete love which motivates him to do the thing that needs to be done on my behalf and yours. What gives me great hope is not my ability but Jesus’.