Luke 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 18:27 He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
There have been times in my spiritual journey where I was convinced that God was a great idea, but the reality of Him doing something outrageously impossible was a pipe dream. Yet, I have never left my faith in God for salvation or even guidance in my life, but the impossible things I needed were not going to happen.
Recently, my thoughts about the impossible have changed, and I think it’s because I feel more inclined not to dismiss it anymore. God does the impossible … we read about it continually in Scripture, but in my everyday life it is harder to find. I do believe God allows our struggles to make us resilient, so in those struggles we often don’t see the impossible taking place. Yet, each struggle we may endure is a stepping stone and a form of a miracle in the process, because it is working out something God sees we need.
The impossible seems to be around us more often these days. Our society is fascinated with overturning nature and the sexual revolution of the 1960s has taken on a whole new twist of no binary limitations to our gender. Homosexuality has entrenched itself into our mainstream lifestyles, and it seems impossible these days to even refute it on any level. People’s ideas about race have escalated to a degree that makes race a prominent factor in how we assess the value of a person’s life. It seems impossible to make race less important in today’s world … it is no longer about the content of the heart as Dr Martin Luther King preached, it’s all about the culture of the race.
It also seems impossible to change the ideas that have held the Church hostage for centuries. I wrote in a recent Facebook post that denominations were extra-Biblical; they are not in the Bible. In fact, the texts of the Bible are all Jewish history, and yet we interpret much of Scripture according to our denomination’s bias of theology. I found it interesting that I went through seminary and still did not know how Jewish the Scriptures really are, because the doctrine we studied was from European theologians. It still seems impossible to convince people that Christianity is an extension of Judaism, and that Jesus was not a white Evangelical but was a Jewish man from the Middle East.
Living in a world of impossible situations can be often disappointing. Nothing seems to change, and our complaints about nothing changing seem to grow daily. It was because of this kind of context that I came to a different conclusion about the impossible. I started to embrace the impossible as an opportunity for God to make anything possible. Another way of saying this would be, “The impossible is God’s chance to make a reality come true that was not possible before.” It seemed to change the idea of the impossible from a negative to a positive because I was adding God to the equation. Any time you add God to anything, there is a possibility of the impossible becoming possible. Now, I want to be clear about this, I am not saying we dismiss the impossible in favor of ignoring its reality, I am saying we add God to the impossible, to see what results could take place.
I am a realist about life and I know the impossible surrounds me every day. Since it is a part of life, I need to be free to address the impossible through the promises of having faith in God. The Scripture teaches that nothing is impossible with God, so if that is true, then the impossible isn’t immovable … it is just an obstacle for a moment.
So today, if you are facing the impossible in health, relationships, finance, employment, remember the impossible does not have the final say … God does. Give Him the opportunity to change your impossible to a possible in Jesus Christ.
Challenging the Culture with Truth … Larry Kutzler