Nothing is Impossible with God

"Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age;

and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

For with God nothing will be impossible."

Luke 1:36-37, NKJV

I wonder how old Elizabeth really was? I know I've said before she was probably in her forties, but reading these verses again makes me wonder. Mary had marveled that she could become pregnant without knowing a man, and the angel equates it to the miracle of Elizabeth conceiving "in her old age." Maybe Elizabeth was closer to the age old Sarah was in Genesis...

But the point is this: Nothing is impossible with God.

We look at things from a natural, human perspective. God looks at thing from the supernatural, Divine perspective. We see things as impossible; God sees what He wants to happen and then makes it happen. There is no impossible with God, no difficult, no hard. I mean, we're talking about the One who stood on the pinnacle of nothing, grabbed a handful of in His right hand, a handful of it in His left hand, slapped it together and sent it spinning, thus creating the universe.

This is the One who spoke, and it was...and now that Spoken Word was becoming flesh. He lit the universe for four days with His presence before there was ever a sun, moon or star...and now that Light was coming to live among men that they might have Life. This is the God who populated the earth by the power of His will, formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into man's nostrils God's own breath. He created it. He sustains it. He could speak it right out of existence at the notion of His desire. He can do all that, and yet when He shows up or sends a messenger with an extraordinary (by our reckoning) announcement, we scratch our heads and say, "How can this be?"

Jesus was about to come on the scene and show humanity how really nothing IS impossible with God...not healing the blind, the cripple, the leper; not walking on water, commanding the wind and waves, delivering the terrorized from their demons; not turning water to wine, multiplying loaves and fishes, or catching the fish where fish shouldn't be; not even life and death were beyond His power to control.

When we get ahold of THAT reality, how different will things be for us? When we learn that God is all powerful and absolutely trustworthy to do whatever He says He will do, when we learn to exercise our faith and put our hope in Him, when we make up our minds that truly NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD...then God can accomplish great things with us.