The Impossible

God likes to do the impossible.

When there was nothing, God spoke and created everything. (Genesis 1)

He holds the earth together. (Colossians 1:16-17)

He took a barren woman in her nineties and gave her a child. (Genesis 17:16, 21:2)

He took a people who had been enslaved for 400 years and gave them freedom. (Exodus 1-15)

He took a nationless race of shepherds who had been wandering in the desert for 40 years and gave them land. (Pretty much all of Joshua)

He took a shepherd boy who was the least in his family and made him the king of His people. (Story starts in 1 Samuel 16)

He defended His city Jerusalem against an army that could have destroyed it. (Isaiah 36-37)

He made yet another old woman pregnant with a child she should not have been able to conceive. (Luke 1:1-25, 57-80)

He became a man by being born of a virgin. (Luke 1:26-38, 2:1-7)

He died. (Luke 23:46)

He came back to life. (Luke 24)

He takes broken people and changes them into a likeness of Christ. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 2 Corinthians 3:18)

He is coming again to restore all things to perfection. (Revelation 19-20)

Why does He love the impossible?

In so many of these things, while God did the impossible, He did/will do it through people doing what they can do. Even in the case of Mary the mother of Jesus, she said yes to giving birth to the Son of God. He takes something that we could never do and works with and through our actions to accomplish it. God loves the impossible because it unites us to Him.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

“To whom will you compare Me? Or who is My equal?” says the Holy One.

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.
Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

- Isaiah 40:21-31 (NIV)

And God doesn’t do the impossible solely on a universal stage. He brings people into His world plan and then does the impossible in their lives.

A God who can create the heavens and call each star by name is capable of a whole lot more than we give Him credit for, and He doesn’t just care about the stars; He cares about you.

See, while He’s holding all creation together and remembering each star’s name, He is also holding you together, and He remembers your name. So when you feel like you’re breaking and can’t go on, look to Him. He gives strength to the weary. Bury yourself in Him and let His arms carry you. He won’t let you go.

Let Him do the impossible in your life.