Impossible?

Luke 1:37 – “Nothing will be impossible with God.”

 

As we get caught up in the daily routines of life, it can seem like some things never change. Our hopes go unmet. Our fears are confirmed. Outcomes seem inevitable. Many things seem impossible. Yet here in Luke 1:37 the angel Gabriel promised the Virgin Mary that nothing is impossible with God. Those words are easily spoken but much harder to believe. Can miracles happen? Can my hopeless circumstances be changed? Sometimes it is tough to believe it in the middle of our challenges, yet in the verse before Gabriel gave Mary a reason to believe the impossible: “Even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.”

As you pray and trust God you may not always see immediate results. It took Mary several weeks to confirm her pregnancy. It took nine months to hear the angels sing, but Elizabeth was already miraculously pregnant. What God did for Elizabeth, he did for Mary. Doctor Luke was a firm proponent of God’s miraculous power, but he also was a scientist who sought evidence as he wrote. God often confirms what He can and will do in us by what He has already done for and through others. I had the privilege of serving Cedar Park Church in Bothell, Washington, for five years. Nearly thirty years ago Pastor Joe Fuiten began to pray for childless couples. As He did for Elizabeth, God began to answer those prayers. As other childless couples heard about these miracle babies, they began to trust God for themselves. Hundreds of children have been born to previously infertile couples after the prayed on Presentation Sunday. God is at work like this making the seemingly impossible possible. Look around. God is at work. Nothing is impossible.