This week as I was about to begin my devotion, I got distracted and opened Facebook. I seem to be a sucker for a story, even if I don’t know the person, so I got caught up reading a story that popped up on my timeline.
Someone had been driving, and got side swiped by another driver, who chose not to stop. In an attempt to get the person’s insurance information and hold them accountable, the first driver followed the person. This person refused to acknowledge their wrong doing and also refused to provide their insurance.
After some back and forth, the original driver sensed something in his spirit, ‘let her go, she can’t afford this’.
Wanting to be obedient, but also wanting to be sure, the original driver asked her if she had insurance, and had to ask multiple times. After some time, the other driver confessed that life had been very hard lately and she didn’t have insurance. He ultimately let her go, knowing the cost of fixing the vehicle would be on him. He chose obedience.
Later in the morning, as I was walking and processing my thoughts with God, I realized that many times God will ask us to do the seemingly impossible (in our strength).
As I further processed my thoughts, and the upcoming Christmas season, I thought of Mary. She was given an assignment that she would have no idea how it would turn out. She was invited to participate in eternal salvation, by giving birth to the Messiah. She knew that being pregnant without being married would make her an outcast. She potentially stood to lose her betrothed because of this unexpected pregnancy, but, she chose to say yes anyway.
Mary waited 30 years for Jesus’ first miracle.
While she may have known He was special since birth, she did not get to witness the first miracle until when He turned water into wine. That would have been 30 years of waiting and wondering if He truly were the promised Messiah.
Often times, God will ask us to do the seemingly impossible thing. And, to be honest, it might be impossible in our strength, but Matthew 19:26 states ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’
Is God asking you to do the seemingly impossible thing?
Will you trust Him and like Mary said in Luke 1:38 ‘May it be to me as you have said’…
And by the way, the preceding verse in Luke 1:37 also states ‘For nothing is impossible with God.’
Friends, let’s also continue to be like Mary when she told the servants at the first miracle, ‘do whatever He tells you’… in this way, we will get to experience the miracles that come with doing the seemingly impossible things.
Dear Heavenly Father, I continue to stand in awe of the stories and how they fit together. Would you allow us to step out in faith and do the seemingly impossible things that you ask us to do? Would you also allow us to experience the miracles that you have set in place, when the time becomes right? Thank you for your love and care that is so evident in our lives.