Luke 1: 35 – 37 The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God.

God would not be God if he couldn’t do what we call impossible. God created the heavens and the earth. That alone qualifies him as God of the impossible. But he has through time intervened in the affairs of men to bring about his ordained will. Throughout the Old Testament we read that God moved to deliver his people by defeating various opposing kings and their armies. In the New Testament we read of instances when angels brought messages to ordinary people, e.g. Zechariah and Mary, to change the course of human history. God set aside the “normal” child-bearing age for Elizabeth and gave her a son. And the virgin girl Mary became the mother of Jesus because “nothing is impossible with God.” Jesus in his turn walked the earth and healed and delivered people from illness and other circumstances to change their lives for the better. In John 11: 1 – 44 it is recorded that Jesus even raised Lazarus from death. How was that possible? Hebrews 1:3 tells us that “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his power.” Like Father, like Son!

In our day, God moves by his Spirit in the lives of individuals to change them and to call people by the millions to turn to him and do his bidding. He still heals and delivers and changes circumstances to bring about his ordained will. He pulls down kingdoms and sets up new ones and we are left in awe and wonder. All power belongs to God and he still rules, even if you do not agree.

I am sitting at my dining table in early spring while I write this and it is raining outside. There was a flash of light just now and before I realized it was lightening, it was followed by the roar of thunder. Hadn’t heard that for a while! I thought, “yes Lord, you do remind us every so often who is in charge!” Dear friend, no one can do the things that God can. Hand him the situations you call ‘impossible’ and back away.

            “I show up when all hope in the abilities of men have been exhausted so that no one can take my glory. This is where my divinity separates me from mortal man. It will never be that I appear to compete with men. The things I do can only be done by me. So test every circumstance when you try to determine if an event is my work or not. My work defies comparison with that of a mere man.”