Selected Scriptures and Personal/Physical Limitations (a repost)
As one of those people with limitations for as long as I can remember--even longer than I can remember--I have gone through a variety of emotions: resentment, anger, resignation, finally reconciliation and realization.  Realization?
Psalm 139:1-6 reads:  "O LORD, you have searched me and known me!  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.  You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.  Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.  You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it." 
How often have I felt hemmed in, limited, and not seen this as wonderful?
Yet, as David wrote in this intimate Psalm:  "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them" (v.v.12-16)
Given, then, that God was involved in these ways in my creation, how could I be angry or resentful or resigned?  Instead, through this and other parts of Scripture, I not only became reconciled to my present (not eternal;) limitations, but also realized that there are benefits to them, somewhat in keeping with these:  "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with we ourselves are comforted by God" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
I have also found a lot of comfort from many of the verses in Psalm 119.
By the ongoing grace of God, then, I have moved from resentment, anger, resignation, finally to reconciliation with and realization that these limitations (temporary) are part of God's process of sanctifying and making me useful.

God's love
God's love is eternal and unchangeable.  What differences will those facts make?  Because it is eternal, it has neither beginning nor end.  Because it is unchangeable, it can be counted on.  There is a caveat however.
It is this:  it is that we respond to God's love with love for Him.
Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans:   "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those called according to his purpose.  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  And those he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?  It is God who justifies.  Who is to condemn?  Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that,who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?  As it is written, 'For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.'
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (8:28-39; ESV)
Yes, the love of God is eternal, unchangeable, and incomprehensible.
Do you love Him?

Divine Armor Supplies All Power

Listening to the sermon by Nathan Busenitz on Ephesians 6:10-18 over live stream from Grace Community Church, I was struck by verses 10-12: "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil,  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." Because of that, verse 13 begins, "Therefore, take up the whole armor of God..."
I had realized some years ago that my salvation--any one's--is a gift of God purchased by the life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  But I was confused for a long time about the matter of sanctification--the growth which follows salvation.  God saved me, but did He leave me to make my own way through life after that?
Eventually I realized  that wasn't the case, though I had lived as if it were.  Philippians 2:12-13 clarified a lot:  "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure."
Even so, what impressed me when it comes to the warfare believers are engaged in is that is is God's armor and strength and might that I must rely on, not mine.
Mine is puny and easily used up.  His is eternal and endless.  However, it has to be accessed, appropriated, appreciated, applied.

Life
I turned the television on and caught the last part of a commercial for some kind of beverage.  The tag line seemed to be "life is short; summer is shorter." 
None of us likes to give much if any thought to the brevity of life.  No matter how many years any of us lives, compared to eternity, they are few.
Moses must have been thinking about that when he wrote what we refer to as Psalm 90.  The 17 verses of this psalm are rich.  We get to listen as  a man pours out his heart to his God, and make those requests ours as well.
A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
"Lord, you have been our dwelling place to all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!"
But a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning; in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
The years of our lives are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone,and we fly away.
Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord!  How long?  Have pity on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many days as we have seen evil.
Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands; yes, establish the work of our hands!"