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Wednesday... But is it really impossible?


Zechariah 8:6 (NLT), "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small remnant of God's people. But is it impossible for me? says the Lord of Heaven's Armies."

Wednesday... But is it really impossible?

Life has its moments of great difficulties, doesn't it? There is no way that we humanly can handle them. Now looking back helps and seeing what we have gone through can be an encouragement but every new impossibility has its own challenges. And each one of them feels impossible. Especially what we are now going through. 


Now Zechariah gives some uplifting truth. In 8:6 (NLT) he writes, "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small remnant of God's people. But is it impossible for me? says the Lord of Heaven's Armies."

So does whatever you are facing right now seem impossible to you? And it probably is, especially if you don't have God in your life. So what do we do? Do we just accept it and go on? So what would happen if we accepted that and didn't do anything about it? We don't even try because we know, we know that we can't handle it, because it really seems to be impossible 

But is it really, really impossible? Is that true?

The Amplified Bible says verse 6 this way, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'If it is difficult in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days [in which this comes to pass], will it also be difficult in my sight?' declares the Lord of hosts."

Genesis 18:14 (NLT) says, "is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return next year and Sarah will have a son." Sarah had just said, "Can an old woman like me have a baby?" She felt that that was an impossibility but she did have when she was old a son and named him Isaac.

Jeremiah 32:17 (NLT) says, "O Sovereign Lord! You made heaven and earth by your strong and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!" And verses 26-27, "Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 'I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?'" Or as the Amplified Bible says it, "is there anything too difficult for Me?"

And then in the NT in Luke 18:27 Jesus said this, "The things that are impossible with people are possible with God."  

So there are some encouraging words for us in what we are facing today. Yes, it may be impossible for us but with God, that's another story. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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