Impossible is what we haven’t yet learned to do.
Don’t believe that? Once it was impossible to talk to someone farther away than our voice could carry. It was also impossible to cook food without a fire. It was impossible to go faster than we could walk or ride a horse, and no one could fly, unless they jumped off a cliff to their death.
Closer to home, it’s impossible to program a computer… until we attend a class. It’s impossible to play the piano, until we take lessons. It’s impossible to ride a bike, rappel off a mountain, or swim in the ocean… until we learn how it’s done.
What’s impossible for us spiritually?
Psalm 13:5-6 says we need to learn to trust in God. Once we learn that lesson, amazing things will begin to happen.
“But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.”
Hebrews 11:11 gives Sarah as our example. Our faith must be rooted in the one who promises the impossible.
“By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.”
Galatians 3:22 guarantees our freedom from the handcuffs of sin. If we only believe, we’ve learned to take the promise of Christ and make it our own.
“But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.”
Faith is the Christian’s core tenet. If we don’t have that, the rest of our relationship with Christ is down the tubes. We are as unlearned children, always saying it’s impossible to be a Christian in the face of the world’s burgeoning wickedness.
Jesus asks for our faith, and he offers us salvation in return.
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