Tag: With God, All Things are Possible - Luke 1-2

Luke 1:37

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Tag:  Nothing is impossible before God

When we face life we do so knowing that we are extremely outnumbered and outsmarted.   There is always someone quicker, richer, smarter and/or more powerful.  But, more importantly, the god of this world is drying to blind the eyes of nonbelievers so that they can’t see the glory of Christ:

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Why?  Because in the glory of Christ there is power.

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

This is just a glimpse of what Luke is saying to the Virgin Mary when he writes, “For nothing will be impossible with God.”   Mary was told she was going to give birth to the Messiah. She probably did not know the depth of Isiah 7:14, that prophesied the Messiah would come from a virgin.   Mary asked, “How can this be, since she did not know a man.”  This is not a question cast in doubt and/or weak faith.  This is is a mechanical question.  She only knows what she knows.  Who, without the Spirit of God and the Revelation of His Word, would even think of a Virgin Birth?   This is an impossible thought.  All non-believers have their minds closed to the impossible.  Most believers do at most points in their life.   God is the God, however, of the impossible.  Who would even think water would come from a rock (Exodus 17:6)?   Who would have thought an ass could talk (Numbers 22:28)?  Who would have thought Christ can rise from the dead (1 Corinthians 15)?   This is the God we worship - the God of the impossible.  He can make a barren woman give birth (Sara, Elizebeth, Hannah) and a virgin give birth to the Messiah.  We worship the God of the impossible.   What do we think He can’t do?   What can He not do with us?  He enabled Peter to walk on water (Matthew 14:29)!  He equipped David to kill a man twice his size with a stone (1 Samuel 17)!  He empowered Peter to heal (Acts 3-4)!  He equipped a young woman to give forth a virgin birth!!!   What do you have on your plate that God CANNOT do?  Really, He can’t?   Read the verse again!!!