Jesus said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
What a word of encouragement we have before us today. Much is impossible with man, but with God all things are possible. In other words, the believer is to look at life through the lenses of our Lord and live a life that rises above IMPOSSIBLE to HIM-POSSIBLE!
In my years in the personal development field, I was a student of all things positive. I was a fan of the 1952 book, The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale, which, by the way, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 186 consecutive weeks. Basically, the thrust of the book was rooted in a positive mental attitude. Believe and succeed with the power of positive thinking to overcome any obstacle that stands in your way. Not bad advice and we should all strive to live out each day with a positive mental attitude. Yet, in our passage of Scripture today, we have something far more powerful than a positive mental attitude. We have the very power of God at our disposal, which allows us to go from IMPOSSIBLE to HIM-POSSIBLE.
- Troubles at the office
- Difficulties in your marriage
- Prodigal child
- Broken friendship
- Financial shortfall
- Mounting debt
- Sickness and disease
Perhaps you have something to add to this list? Regardless of what it is that you are currently facing that seems absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for you to overcome, it only seems that way because you are trying to overcome in your strength rather than His. To go from IMPOSSIBLE to HIM-POSSIBLE is to go from living in the natural to the supernatural. It is walking by faith and not by sight. It is trusting God even when we cannot trace Him. It is looking at something that seems utterly hopeless and yet still having hope. Why? Because with God all things are possible.
Listen, God did not bring you this far just to leave you here. He has promised to get you to the other side, but He did not promise to get you there trouble-free. In fact, He promised that you would experience trials and tribulations on your way to the Celestial City. But what must be remembered is this – trials and tribulations are simply tests to see in whom we will trust. Will we trust in the self or will we trust in our Savior? You can indeed go from IMPOSSIBLE to HIM-POSSIBLE but you can only do this by going to HIM. At a time when many disciples turned their backs on Jesus, He asked the Twelve, “You do not want to leave too, do you?” To which Peter responded, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” And that is how we go from IMPOSSIBLE to HIM-POSSIBLE.
This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!
Grace for the Race 