ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
It had been a beautiful day on the ocean. I still can remember the first couple of hours seeing the whales breaching and seeing and hearing them as they were spouting in every direction. The seas were dead flat and the skies were cloudless.... But all that calm and beautiful stuff changed in an instant.
We were fishing off the north coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska and the fishing was great. It was so great we quit looking at the skies. Suddenly the winds and clouds came and we realized we needed to head for camp, but it was too late. The seas had giant swells and the were crashing over the bow as we headed south.
I honestly felt as though we were going to drown there in the North Pacific... but God had another plan. The closest land to us was an island that a family had built a small compound... it's name? The island of grace. The name was fitting as we were able to tuck into the downwind side and ride out the storm. What seemed impossible a few hours earlier, became possible, because of God's grace and provision.
How often we put God in a box. We struggle and fret and all too often fear... And deep down inside we know that God is bigger than anything we will face today, this week, this year or ever... He is all powerful and yet we forget.
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains great privileges: omnipotence without personal power, direct access to the King and life without death. All three gifts that can only be passed down from God to each of us.
A few days ago a friend sent me a devotional that had a quote at the bottom. I'm not sure who it came from but it was very powerful. "He is the God of boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small; our expectations are too limited."
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
It will always pay to remember, " With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
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