Impossible?

One of my favorite musicals is Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. I know it by heart–have since I was a little girl. In High School I sang In My Own Little Corner when I auditioned for Miss Teenage Columbus. And it got me in.

One of the other songs is between Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother is preparing Cinderella for the ball, but Cinderella declares that it’s impossible! Fairy Godmother’s response, “Impossible things are happening every day. It’s possible.”

That song and the promise from Luke 1:37 that nothing is impossible for God have shaped my faith.

Truth be told: I sing the song from Cinderella as often as I sing, Trust and Obey.

Are there things in your life you have either felt were impossible, or maybe others have told you would be impossible for you to accomplish? I understand how that feels.

But I’ve also seen God accomplish things way beyond what I could ask or imagine.  That’s another one of his promises. It came from the pen of the Apostle Paul and is recorded in his letter to the Ephesians:

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…(Ephesians 3:20, NIV).

Luke’s promise of nothing being impossible for God is tucked into the story of Mary being told she would conceive and give birth to the Savior of the world. Her response? “May it be to me as you have said.”

What impossible thing do you sense God wanting to do in you and through you?

What will your response be?