Mission Impossible

Who would have ever thought that a woman of 90, who was past her child bearing years, married to a guy who wasn't exactly young (approaching 100) would bear a son? Who would have thought that a group of exiles would be sent by the king to go rebuild the walls of Jerusalem; that they would be provided with all they needed to do the job; that they would have persevered and overcome the intimidations of those who wanted to bring them down? Who would have thought that a man called Saul, the arch enemy of Christians, would become one that the Lord used to bring many to Christ; who left us much of our New Testament?
Probablly all of us, had we lived in those days, would have thought such things impossible. And that's what makes the words of the Lord to Abraham so special. In Genesis 18:14 the Lord says, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" That's a perspective we all need to be reminded daily.
But before that perspective can inform our living we have to be convinced of who the Lord is. Abraham seemed to have a great sense of who God was. In Genesis 18 he calls the Lord, "the Judge of all the earth", and in light of this Judge Abraham sees himself as mere "dust and ashes". Paul's description in Acts 17 is even fuller. He says in 17:24 and following, "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything."
Now when you contemplate a God like that...when you place your focus on the Creator and Sustainer of all things, you begin to see that with God there may not be any impossible missions.
Even in Jesus' rebuke in Matthew 17:20 we see that with just a little faith in this God we might begin to do the impossible.
You know I have to be honest. Too often I live in the possible. Too often I expect the usual. Too often I look at my own resources and think about how I can't do something. But when I consider the God in whose hands I have deposited my life. When I think about who He is, and what He has done and is doing, I begin to see a glimpse of the impossible.
This morning I have to ask myself the question, "Am I trusting God for anything impossible?" Am I venturing to do anything I know is beyond my capabilities but not His? Am I expressing even a mustard seed of faith in my living? God help me and all of us to trust God to complete the "Mission Impossible" to which He has called us.