Psalm 78:41 says, “They limited the Holy One of Israel”. Charles Spurgeon writes in-depth from his 1859 sermon that when God gave forth the law it was engraved on two stones. The first tablet contained the commandments concerning man and God, the second tablet dealt with man and man. But there are three of the ten – from both tablets – that limit God. How? The first is dictating to Him by giving God the list of what we want done rather than “Your will be done, Lord.”

Dictating what we want, with no deference to God’s superior wisdom and grace, can sometime go so far as to say that we will not be content unless we have what we want. Further, our demands usually include the amount and the shape of what we want. And finally, we issue our own timing, setting a time and a date to the Almighty. “We have made up our minds that the blessing must come within a certain period; and as it does not come, we do as it were spite our God by declaring we will stop no longer; that we have waited time enough; we will have no more patience; we will be gone; it is clear the blessing will not come.”

Our action to our loving Father and Creator should be, “No; go thou to his throne; bow thyself reverently before him; give up thy will, let it be bound in golden fetters a bond-slave to God. Cry thou this day, ‘Lord, have mercy on me a sinner, and let it be not as I will, but as thou wilt.’”