The Impossible Possible of God

Do you ever look at a situation and feel so overwhelmed that it’s depressing? The circumstances are so completely beyond your ability to change? The magnitude of your prayers cause you to doubt that even God could answer?

I have. I do. I often feel like my life is facing impossible situations. What is crushed can’t be mended. What is broken can’t be fixed. What is changed can’t be unchanged. What is lost can’t be found. 

Sometimes I’ve been told I see the world with my glass half empty. And you know, that used to bother me. Am I really so negative? Is having your glass half empty so bad? If it’s half empty, that means I’ve already consumed the first half. I’ve lived that half and I have half to go. Well…depending on your age, of course.

I’ve already climbed a lot of mountains and trudged through many valleys, and I suspect I will see both again in the future. I’ve walked in the wilderness and felt spiritual drought. And I’ve been full of gratitude and felt as though the world was all sunshine.

NOTHING STAYS THE SAME, THOUGH, AND WITH LIFE’S CHANGES, WE CAN GET DISCOURAGED OR WE CAN LIFT OUR HEARTS HEAVENWARD AND LEARN TO TRUST THE IMPOSSIBLE TO OUR POSSIBLE GOD.

I’M READING IN SEVERAL BOOKS IN THE SCRIPTURES AT ONCE–THAT’S JUST THE WAY I READ–AND I’VE ADDED TWO DEVOTIONALS TO THE MIX ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF FAMILY AND FRIEND. THE OTHER DAY AS I READ THE FIRST DEVOTIONAL, IT ENDED WITH THESE WORDS,

“I ask great things of a great God.” 

I opened the next devotional and that day’s focus was,

“With man it is impossible but with God all things are possible.” 

I could not have orchestrated those two lessons to contain the same message on the same day if I’d tried. The devotions were not related in any way–and one was written from a Puritan perspective, the other modern day. And yet…God is timeless. He knew that on that day I needed a double dose of that message.

And actually, it continued to pop up in the Scriptures I read–the truth of God’s grace, the ability of God to do anything and do it better than I could begin to imagine. The New Testament told me of God’s grace to believe. The Old reminded me of the way God parted the Red Sea and made it a dry path to walk on.

Impossible? Absolutely. 

WE CALL THESE THINGS MIRACLES AND MANY PEOPLE DOUBT THEIR VALIDITY.

BUT HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A MODERN-DAY MIRACLE?

I HAVE. JUST RECENTLY, A FRIEND OF MINE SAW THE MIRACULOUS HEALING OF HER SON. HE WAS AT THE END OF HOPE WHEN FRIENDS PRAYED OVER HIM AND HE BEGAN TO IMPROVE SO MUCH THAT HE IS ALMOST BACK TO THE BOY HE HAD BEEN BEFORE HE WAS AFFLICTED.

I’ve seen the miracle of faith and the miracle of birth and so many smaller things that we don’t always realize come from the hand and grace of God. If our eyes could see the world the way God sees it…if the blinders to the spiritual were removed from our human vision, we would see so much more than we can see now. More than we could ask or imagine.

We would believe the impossible is possible. We would believe that God can do anything, that those prayers can be answered, that what is broken can be fixed, what was stolen can be restored, what is lost can be found. 

I wonder how much we miss because we don’t ask a great God for great things?

I’ve learned a lot in recent years and I’ve been hit with many reasons to doubt God’s ability to do what I can’t. But when I do that, I bring God down to my level and I think He has no more power than I do. Rather faithless, wouldn’t you say?

But God is gracious and kind and He understands my weakness. He knows I am mortal and cannot see what He can see. So I decide to trust that He can do what I can’t.

HE IS THE GOD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE. WITH HIM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. AND WHEN I MAKE A DELIBERATE CHOICE TO TRUST HIM BECAUSE HIS CHARACTER TELLS ME THAT HE CAN…I CAN STOP DOUBTING.

He will make right what is wrong. He will fix what I can’t. He will prove to me and the entire world someday that He can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that I could ask or imagine according to the power that works in us. He can work in me. He can change me. And He can change you. He can change our circumstances, but greater still, He can change our hearts.

AND THAT’S THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL.

~Selah

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