…with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 KJV
Amen!
This promise is TRUE, as are all of God’s promises.
But… why does He need to prove it?
What if I just wanted to believe that one by faith?
So often our faith is weak, and we just want God to demonstrate His power. To act out His promises in a real way, that we can actually experience.
But this promise?
With God all things are possible.
Do we really want God to prove that one to us?
At first glance, sure! “Yeah, show me the great things You can work out for me! That sounds wonderful!”
but… take a closer look.
With God.
All things.
Are possible.
When God starts demonstrating the truth of this statement, it doesn’t feel like special favour.
It doesn’t look like the revelation of a promise.
Because the only way for God to prove that statement is… to lead me through the very things that to my view, are impossible. And make them possible.
If you give God the right to yourself,
Oswald Chambers
He will make a holy experiment out of you.
God’s experiments never fail.
Not actually an enjoyable or relaxing journey, to state it mildly.
But along that path, God is proving in a very tangible way the truth of His promise!
When faced with something difficult, if I do it with God… it becomes possible… no matter what it is.
Every situation I have ever found myself in, no matter how great the intensity, how beyond exhausted I am, how overwhelming the flood or how violent the storm… every one of those places becomes a place of possible. Because I face no circumstance without God.
Why is God showing this to me? What impossible circumstances might I face in the future where I need to believe in full confidence that with God, It Will Be Possible?
I’m truly thankful I don’t know.
Possible doesn’t mean smooth or easy, it may simply mean survivable. Endurable. It might not even feel bearable, but everything that you come through alive was made possible.
And every victory strengthens you for the next challenge… it’s like climbing a rock wall. You have to grab one handhold at a time, and inch by perilous inch, you will reach new heights. It’s a process.
It’s exciting to look back and see how many things I’ve made it through with God… and a comfort to trust that no challenge I face in the future will ever be too hard for Him.
“No matter what I face, You’re by my side…” *
Making all things possible.
*lyrics from “Trust in You”
With men, this is impossible, but with God,
Matthew 19:26, KJV
nothing shall be impossible.
Notes from My Heartsong 