For all those facing the impossible today, here's a bit of truth, a bit of hope:
Excerpt from Waiting for Wonder:
Our
God is the God of the impossible. He is the God of impossible
promises.
This is the God who said to a virgin
through the angel Gabriel, “Look! You will conceive and give birth to a son,
and you will name him Jesus” (Luke 1:31), and Mary conceived a son without ever
having been with a man. Jesus was born.
This is the God who provided a
boatload of fish after a night when not a single one was caught (Luke 5;
John 21), who calmed the storm when the disciples were certain they would drown
(Mark 4), who healed a man born blind when no one had ever heard of that (John
9), who healed the incurable and drove out demons (Matt 8; Luke
17), who raised the dead (Mark 5; Luke
7; John 11).
This is the God who promised he
would “suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and the
legal experts, and be killed, and then, after three days, rise from the dead”
(Mark 8:31) And he did.
He rose! He rose from the dead to
defeat death. He rose so that every other impossible promise could come true.
He rose and now nothing else can ever be impossible. Now we can live in these
impossible promises:
·
I
myself will be with you every day until the end of this present age. (Matt 28:20)
·
I
will never leave you or abandon you. (Heb 13:5)
·
The
one who started a good work in you will stay with you to complete the job by
the day of Christ Jesus. (Phil 1:6)
·
My
yoke is easy to bear, and my burden is light. (Matt 11:30)
·
Whoever
drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. The water that I give will become in those who
drink it a spring of water that bubbles up into eternal life. (John 14:4)
·
Ask,
and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened
to you. (Matt 7:7)
·
When
I go to prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me so
that where I am you will be too. (John 14:3)
·
And
all who have left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms
because of my name will receive one hundred times more and will inherit eternal
life. (Matt 19:29)
·
God
is faithful. He won’t allow you to be tempted beyond your abilities. Instead,
with the temptation, God will also supply a way out so that you will be able to
endure it. (1 Cor 10:13)
·
I
assure you, whoever believes has eternal life. (John 6:47)
And
so many, many more.
Go ahead and laugh. It’s okay. But
it’s even better to step out of your tent and go to him with your doubts, your
discouragement, your fear of being disappointed yet again.
Come, and believe this God of the impossible.
Jesus
looked at them carefully and said,
“It’s
impossible for human beings. But all things are possible for God.”
Matthew 19:26
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