(This is day seventeen of the Rediscovering the Christmas Season Advent Study that can be found here. You don’t have to start at the beginning. In fact, you can jump in any time or go in any order. Care to join?)
Today, since I’m not blogging weekends, I actually went back to Saturday’s devo, on day 15. I felt like I needed it more.
Read Luke 1 and Jeremiah 32:17.
These passages are about an improbably baby and an impossible baby. God set the stage for the advent of Jesus Christ–who could do the impossible all of His life.
Why do you think God delights in doing the impossible? Why do parents enjoy making a quarter appear in their child’s ear? What a look of wonder when the coin “magically” appears. No, we’re not God and we’re really not making a quarter appear, so it’s an imperfect analogy, but isn’t it the sheer delight of seeing their eyes light up? I think God delights in doing the impossible because only He can… and because it delights the sheer joy in us.
Is God asking you to believe something that seems impossible? Write down something you want to ask Him for that seems impossible. I am not going to publicly write it here, but He knows what it is. He knows the daily cry of my heart. And He will make a way, one way or another, perhaps in a way I don’t see coming.
When was a time you had to depend on Jesus to do the impossible? Read aloud the verse about our God of the impossible. I have to pick just one time? I’d have to say when He healed me. There was no earthly way possible for me to get out of the fear that gripped and influenced every part of my life. There was no way to be healed. Oh, there was a way to manage, but as far as healing, there was no human way possible. But He told me I’d be freed. He told me I’d be healed. And I had to stand on that and believe that He could do it. And He did. Oh, how He did. I love having that story as a part of my life!
-JB
Dawn Lucowitz says
1. Why do I think God delights in doing the impossible? Duh, how fun must it be to always be able to do things that we mere humans say is impossible? God likes to “keep us on our toes.” He also likes to watch us delight in these things.
2. I don’t know that God is asking me to believe something that is impossible right now, but the second part of the questions….What do I want that seems impossible? Well, I will be totally honest in this blog even though I have no idea who else (other than Jodie) is reading. I would like to have a child of my own. I don’t know if “medically” we are able to or not. We have never gone to see if there is a reason we haven’t conceived. All I know is that I haven’t been on birth control for years and I have not been pregnant. I am not opposed to adoption at all, but my husband and I haven’t done the real serious talking about that option yet. I am thankful that he is on the same page as I am in that I truly believe if I am suppose to have a child, whether any doctor would say I can or not, then I will have one. I have asked him if he wants to go and have us get checked out, and he has said no. I have many friends that have asked if I have ever gotten checked out because maybe there is a reason and maybe it is an easy fix. My answer has remained, “if I am suppose to have a child, I will.” When God is ready to bless me in that way, if it is His will, he will make it happen.
3. I know there are so many things, but my brain is blank right now except for when I trained and ran my half marathon. I had been an athlete most of my life and played two sports in college, so the idea of running a half marathon shouldn’t have seemed impossible, but it did. It seemed like an impossibility because I had 2 separate surgeries on the same knee while I was in college and never ran more than 3-5 miles at any one stretch in my entire life. Whenever I did run (following those surgeries), my knee would swell up and it would be sore and a strain to walk the entire next day. I knew if my body would hold up, I could do it, but I did not believe that it was possible my body would. Well, I can’t believe how little pain and swelling I experienced during my training and the actual run. I prayed over my body a lot during that time and I had others pray over it as well. I know that I was in synch with God at that time because I have never felt him so strongly in my life and he allowed my body to keep going when it had no business doing so!