The Impossible

So I am sitting in a hotel this morning while my husband spends the day in a ministry/life coaches training.   We have enjoyed a much needed getaway.  As I was reading my scripture in the old testament I was again reminded of how much of a pain the Israelites were.  Funny how I can relate to them.  You see they had been eating Manna and more manna and were complaining and complaining.  (Can you relate sometimes?)  They were wanting some meat so God gave them what they asked for.  "You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days...but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, 'why did we come out of Egypt?'. . . Now Moses was wondering how this would happen since they were in the desert so he said to the Lord.  "Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them?  Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?  And the Lord said to Moses, 'Is the Lord's hand shortened?  Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."

God was going to do the impossible.  Even Moses was wondering how this would happen.  The Lord send a wind and it brought quail.  I still have trouble with the impossible.  I still wonder in situations that seem impossible if anything will change.  I must hear the Lord's words spoken to me - "IS THE LORD'S HAND SHORTENED?"  No it is not.  This God who provided for the grumbling Israelites is the same God who is there for me.  He is still there in what seems impossible in my life.  I was telling my husband yesterday that I want my faith to be stronger, so strong that I believe without doubting in the situations that seem impossible to me.  I don't want to just "know" that he can and will do the impossible, but I want to believe it deep down within my soul, right down to the core.  I pray that this morning, that all of who I am, all of who we are, deep down, will grow in faith to believe the impossible.  My prayer is that our God - the awesome powerful true God in the bible - who did mighty acts - who constantly did and still does the impossible will continue to show me the impossible in my life.

Remember when Jesus told the disciples that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kindom of God?  The disciples wondered how then anyone can be saved.  Jesus response: "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Believe without doubting!  Sometimes even that seems impossible - but nothing is impossible with God. 

You are so good God.  I love you!