Unlimited. Freedom.

Unlimited. Freedom.
These are two words that have really resonated in my heart over the last months in our worship at Canterbury Vineyard, and particularly so in the worship at our Cause to Live For events. Initially the words were pertinent in my head as individual words, really feeling that God was speaking His illimitability over us, the illimitability of his grace, love and mercy. Unlimited, to me suggested an imminence and accessibility of Him, of His affection, of His desire to love on us, to protect us, to secure us. But as the worship progressed, I could feel God just opening this up further- it goes beyond what we perceive is “unlimited”. It is quite easy to believe that God is unlimited, because unlimited suggests infinite, eternal, and I think that there can be an ease to lose sight of something so big. When Louis Giglio spoke about the sheer magnitude of creation and God’s part in that (in the talk titled “How Great is Our God” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMw1ndl-EY), I can’t help but feel swallowed by it all, to the extent that I was tempted to shrug it off- yeah God’s big, cool. But unlimited in this moment suddenly meant more; it meant an accessibility, an infinite accessibility to our creator. It meant being able to ask Him for things too big for me to handle, or to comprehend and we as a family were stepping into it, asking for More in the worship, asking for More in our lives.
And stood there, thrown into the presence of Jesus with this incredible worship, I just felt the sense that God was asking me, and us as a family to be unlimited for Him. To be unlimited to Him, baring our souls and hearts to Him, but also going out and telling people of what He has done for us in a way that knows no bounds or restrictions.
Which is why I couldn’t help but laugh when Freedom was the next word that popped into my head, you have to know that Jesus has a great sense of humour. It resonated as the means to the end. You are free to be unlimited, you are free to access more and more of the infinite God that you will never be able to get too much of, or not enough of. Everlasting. Never ending. I could break into a Hillsong song round about now... Suffice it to say, worship is a key tool in helping to access that, and it is a privilege to be a part of something so effective, so moving, and so incredible as worship of our Father enabling us to reach Him and access everything that He has for us.
Vicky Beeching sang “where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”, and when God put the word on my heart, it was through singing that bridge. I opened my bible and found it in 2 Corinthians 3:17. How awesome it is to know that we can just ask for God’s spirit, and with His spirit comes the freedom to access His everything.