For with God nothing will be impossible. Luke 1:37 NKJV

 

Impossible.  Is that what the situation you’re facing today looks like?

 

What’s the seemingly “impossible” thing that has you in its grip? Someone you love who’s far from God? A worsening illness that the doctors can’t figure out or serious financial insecurity? Besides the present situation, sometimes all of our past disappointments scream loudly too.

One of the most impossible situations in the Bible involved hungry people, in fact, more than 5,000 hungry people. The Bible records a huge crowd following Jesus around to see His miracles. Jesus asked his follower named Phillip, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?” Phillip looked at the size of this impossibility and answered that even if they worked for months, they wouldn’t have enough money! Another of Jesus’s friends looked at what they did have on hand; they found a boy in the crowd with five small loaves of bread and two fish. “What good is that with this huge crowd?” Andrew asked Jesus.

But neither Phillip, nor Andrew looked to Jesus, Who took that small lunch they had, thanked God for it and impossibly, miraculously turned it into more than enough for every single person there (John 6:1-15).

The Bible says that “with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37 NKJV) but so often I forget that. When my skepticism takes over, I need to remember, as one pastor wrote, “Even when things look impossible from a human perspective, with Jesus anything is possible. Acknowledging my past disappointments, and surrendering my ever-present skepticism, I yield my heart to the possibility of miracles—of abundant provision, mercy and fresh hope.”[1]

[1] Grieg, Pete. Lectio355. “24-7 Prayer, Version 1.8.10, May 30, 2023. www.24-7prayer.com.