About
finding hope in the impossible…
Matthew
19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God
all things are possible." (NIV)
When we look at our reality, it is easy to think some of our hopes, dreams, and
goals fit into the category of being impossible. However, what seems to be
impossible now may easily be possible in the next hour, day, month, or year.
What was impossible two hundred years ago is now taken for granted. Two hundred
years ago, people did not fly, did not talk to each other on a telephone, did
not watch television or motion pictures, and did not listen to another person
speak over a radio. Clearly, what we think is impossible now may be taken for
granted later. Because what is impossible now may be possible later, we can look
into the future with hope. There is always, always, always hope. Jesus came to
earth, permitted Himself to be tortured and crucified, and rose again on the
third day to give us hope. In your life, when you face the impossible, the
impossible is likely seen by you as impossible because you have no hope. When
you have hope, what seems impossible now turns into something possible later.
When you face the greatest impossibility of all, the impossibility of conquering
death in yourself or in someone else, you have hope. You have the greatest hope
of all time when you face death, for Jesus came to us to give us hope for not
just surviving death, but for living forever in Heaven. When we fully embrace
the possibility of life in Heaven, all the other impossibilities we face every
day begin to diminish in importance.
