Nothing limits God but God, Itself.  If we argue that The Creator can do anything and create anything, then we must also include in that argument that God can also set limits on what It does with Its power and authority.  Succinctly, to deny the possibility of God's volitional self-limitation would amount to a denial of the concept of God's volitional absoluteness.

God has defined Itself to be of one nature — PERFECTION.  God is all powerful, all-knowing, unchanging, eternal — complete perfection — perfect in every way.  God does not act against Its own nature, because doing and being less would be contrary to Its perfection.  Consistent with God's nature, however, God has the power and authority to will to do anything.

We can apply this same logic to our own lives.  "Why would we want to express and be less than the greatest of our potential?"  Why, indeed?  Why would we express and be less than the potential of goodness that we are capable of?  These are not rhetorical ques­tions, but questions whose answers are pregnant with hope and potential.  Only by aligning with and exercising the innate God-potential within us can we discover ways to overcome difficulties in our relation­ship with others and particularly with ourselves.

God limits Itself where self-will of humans occurs.  God has not, does not, and will not violate the initia­tive of our self.  Our self-will is an inviolable aspect in God's relation­ship to creatures that have will.  This is self-evident when we examine the self-destructive decisions we make and God does not interfere.

We make millions upon millions of decisions each day, yet none is transgressed by God or Its spiritual legions.  Why?  Because, if God began changing the outcome of our decisions and actions, several things could occur: We would wise up and realize that someone (God) was changing the outcome of our decisions; we would defer deciding what to do in favor of God making the right decision the first time; we would not give careful thought to our decisions knowing that God would intervene and make it right for us; we would not learn — gain in wisdom — from our decisions; we would not gain in spiritual insight and growth to make better decisions as we live out our lives.  By making better decisions, our souls grow from the challenges presented to us in our lifetimes, and this enhances our potential to become survivors in the duration of our ascendant spiritual career.

Total freedom — total responsibility.  Without total freedom and total responsibility for our self-will decisions, the potential for complete, fulfilling growth in the infinity of time of our lives would be denied to us.  God limits Itself in our lives to provide us with the possibility to express and fulfill the totality of our potential on all levels of our being, just as God does.

Many people have a generalized anxiety and fear about God's relationship to them.  Their fear and anxiety is usually due to their old beliefs that, because God created the universe and all that is in it, God is responsible for all of it and what happens in it.  They fear that God will unilaterally judge them and take action according to all their errors.  This is simply archaic thinking.

Ultimately, with total freedom, we are totally responsible for our actions, not God.  There is no need for fear or anxiety on our part concerning God's inten­tions or actions for us.  This being so, the real source of our anxiety becomes our confidence or lack thereof in our own ability to lead our lives as responsible citizens on this planet and in the universe.  There is much to fear, but not God.  God has generously given us all the necessary attributes of Itself, particularly self-awareness, and furthermore has provided a pattern, an example to follow.  When we become self-aware of the necessity of becoming a responsible decision-maker, we have come a long ways to becoming a responsible, co-creative partner with the Presence of God within.  Then we will know that the course of our life is shared, and our anxieties will dissolve.  With the Presence of God within as our guide and co-creative partner in life, we empower the flow of our lives in the right direction when we begin to "Let go, and let God."