Improbability and Impossibilities

Our daughter’s accident has been coming to remembrance often lately. It’s a moment, a day, that will forever be stamped into our timeline, a shifting point. As I’ve reflected, Matthew 19:26 has come to me over and over. 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

After the accident she kept saying, “Mom, no one knows. No one will ever know.” And she’s right. No one will ever fully comprehend what we saw and went through that day, but I believe God allowed us to experience and see what we did with our physical eyes so we would never doubt his power and love.

I can relate to the father of the demon possessed boy in Mark 9. 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” Help my unbelief!

I can remember driving to meet the ambulance that day praying and pleading, “PLEASE! PLEASE God! Don’t let her die!” As I heard her ask my dad, “Pappy, am I going to die?” Something came over me. I said, “Hadley, you’re going to be ok! You’re going to be fine. Because he told us by his stripes we’re healed. He told us Hadley! And as I repeated Isaiah 53:5 over and over something shifted in my spirit. I knew those words were true. I believed them. I knew I could stand on them, and he would uphold his promise!

I feel so strongly in my spirit that this is the year of the impossible. What is it you’ve been praying and waiting for, plowing and sowing into? What promises are you holding onto? I believe our time is now.

But the thing is, I don’t think it’s just going to happen. Because I’ve found that’s not how he works. There is always something he asks of us first. Do we really want the things we’ve been seeking and asking for? Because I believe if we do, it’s going to require something from us; a sacrifice, immediate obedience, a stepping out, walking in Faith. We can’t put him in a box.

I feel we’ve been gifted with a window of mercy and don’t confuse mercy with grace. Max Lucado says it this way, “The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.” I keep hearing the stirring, “You’ve been given the time, now what are you going to do with it?”

Now is the time to run with all we have, but don’t expect it to be like before. This time I believe it will be different. I love this verse in Isaiah, but what always captures me is verse 18. As I read it today, all I could think of was Lot’s wife (Genesis 19). The angels told them not to look back, not to stop, and to flee to their destination, which alludes to an urgency.

Isaiah 43:18-19

18 “Forget the former things;    

do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing!    

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness    

and streams in the wasteland.

In my notes I have written, “you don’t have to understand to obey,” and “when the Holy Spirit lays something in your heart, move without hesitation. You have no idea who may be depending on your immediate obedience.” ~ The Word for the Day

May we have ears to hear his voice and hearts ready to walk in all he may require of us in this coming year. I’m believing big and bold for 2025. May he move in ways and magnitudes we’ve never imagined or fathomed.

Ephesians 3:20-21 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.

2 Corinthians 5:7 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 1:20 20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.

Hebrews 10:23 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

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