What in your life seems impossible?
Not difficult, impossible. There is a
difference between difficult and impossible. Difficulties seem to have
solutions while impossibilities lack them. Difficulties still have hope
while impossibilities do not. We tend to think we can handle difficulties
if we just hang in there long enough. Impossibilities cause us to give
up. God wants to work in your difficult and impossible situations.
Lord Coggan said, "When God intends to make something wonderful He begins
with a difficulty. When he intends to make something very wonderful, he begins
with impossibility." Only God can make the possibly impossible
possible and create very wonderful out of miserable.
Many have experienced difficulties
in pregnancy. Jesus' birth was not just a difficulty, it was an impossibility.
Mary was a virgin. We see Mary's response to the angel Gabriel's
announcement of Jesus' birth in Luke 1:34-37. “Then Mary said to the
angel, ‘How can this be, since I do not know a man?’ And the
angel answered and said to her, ‘The
Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow
you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of
God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a
son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called
barren. For with God
nothing will be impossible.’” It was not
new information that a virgin could not have a baby. It was not something that was difficult to
make happen, it was impossible! But the
angel reassured Mary God could do anything – with Him nothing will be
impossible.
I’m reminded of God’s ability to
make the possibly impossible possible throughout Scripture. Ephesians 3:20 tells us, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably
more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within
us.” It is God’s nature to do the
impossible. He is still the God of
miracles. Only God can create life. The conception of a baby is a miracle in
itself. But God stepped up the miracle
of birth with the impossibility of a virgin birth. Only God can breathe human, sinless life into
the already existent divine second person of the Trinity through the womb of a
virgin. Only God can orchestrate Jesus
being fully God and fully human at the same time!
Remember when Abraham and Sarah were awaiting the promise of a son? They were old, too old to have kids as they
were 100 and 90 respectively, but God promised and delivered the
impossible. God told them, “Is anything
too difficult for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14).
Remember when the Israelites were complaining about their food source
and God told Moses He would feed almost a million of them for a month? God asked them, “Is the Lord’s power limited?”
(Numbers 11:23). Job recognized God’s
ability to do the impossible when he said, “I know that You can do all things,
and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted” Job 42:2). Isaiah said the Lord’s hand is not so short
it cannot save and His ear is not so dull it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1). Jeremiah said, “Nothing is too difficult for
You” (Jeremiah 32:17). Jesus said about
salvation, “with man it is impossible but with God all things are possible”
(Matthew 19:26).
What is your impossibility? Is it too big for God? Absolutely not! God can accomplish through you what you have
written off as impossible. God can
change the impossible circumstances in your life but the biggest thing He wants
to change is you. You are not impossible. Never say “never” when it comes to what God
can do through and especially in you.
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