Possible Impossibilities!

Verse of the day: Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

"Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" This is the question the Lord asked Sarah when she laughed in disbelief that she would conceive, and give birth to Isaac, the son promised to Abraham (Gen 18:14). Today, let us look at our own lives and ask ourselves the same question. What is going on in our lives today that we are waiting God to work in? Have we gotten discouraged, and given up on a situation, a family member, a desire to serve God in a certain way or waiting for healing (whether physical or emotional), and just cannot see how God can work in the circumstance(s)? We all experience this at some point in our walk with the Lord. However, it is those instances that we read, in Scripture, when God does the impossible in the life of one of His people, that we need to find the encouragement, and be reminded that God can do what is impossible for us to do. Here in the Book of Luke, the angel reminds Mary, the mother of Jesus, that her conceiving a child, and her barren cousin Elizabeth also bearing a child, is not beyond the realm of possibility with God. We later read (in the Gospels) the account of how she conceives by the Holy Spirit, and how Elizabeth also conceives and gives birth to John the Baptist. In the Old Testament, we not only have the account of Sarah conceiving, and giving birth to Isaac, but we also read the account of Hannah, who was also barren, but her womb was opened by God, and she conceived, and gave birth to Samuel. These are only a few examples of how God can make the impossible possible in the lives of His people. Lest we forget, did not God part the Red Sea for Moses and the Israelites when they were delivered from their bondage in Egypt (Ex 14:21-22)? Today, we serve the same God. Our Omnipotent God has not lost one ounce of His power, and desires to demonstrate that power through us; even if we have faith as small as a mustard seed (Matt 17:20). The Christian life is not a boring life, if we are living it by faith. Too often we live life based on what we think is possible, what we physically see or have experienced, thereby hindering God's desire to work miraculously on our behalf (Matt 13:58). We serve a faithful God who can do far beyond what we give Him credit for. We speak of His greatness, and His power, but sadly, and much too often, live as if situations we face on a daily basis are too hard for God to help us overcome, or too hard for Him to carry us through. Today, let us surrender our lives to God, give Him all our "impossibilities", and watch Him do the impossible (Matt 19:26). We must remove the boundaries we have built with our unbelief, and give God free reign in our lives to do the impossible; all for the glory of God.