What do you do when you face something that’s humanly impossible to solve? What do you do when you can do nothing?
Facing the Impossible
[1]What do you do when you face something that’s humanly impossible to solve? What do you do when you can do nothing? Is anything too hard for God? Is there any problem too huge for God to handle? For sure, everything is small to God (Isaiah 40). When things get too hard for you to handle then get hard on praying. If it’s difficult or seems impossible, fall on your knees and ask God for His wisdom. God has promised in His Word that “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him” (James 1:5), “For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Prov 2:6). Find something that you cannot do by yourself? Jesus tells us to come to God in prayer and “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Matt 7:7). Also seek godly counsel from godly people you know and counsel is always found in the Word of God, because that’s where God’s wisdom is found.
God of the Impossible
Only God “sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in” (Isaiah 40:22), so is anything “too big” for God to handle? God “brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness” (Isaiah 40:23), so cannot God do whatsoever He pleases, and do those things that are humanly impossible? Whatever we are not able to do, only God can. Of course, it must be according to His will. When facing a crisis years ago, instead of saying, “Oh no…I’m not sure what I’m going to do,” (which I have often said), instead, I said, “Oh boy God…I can’t wait to see what You Lord are going to do.” Jesus understood our human inabilities and limitations “and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matt 19:26). The “All things” that are possible must be aligned with God’s will. It is not “All things” including a Mercedes-Benz. But sometimes God cures cancer, restores marriages and heals broken hearts to love again.
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God Can Do All Things
When Abraham and Sarah was well beyond child-bearing age, God still promised them a child of promise, which would be Isaac. When the couple can hardly believe their ears, God asked them, “Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son” (Gen 18:14). The obvious answer is “No,” nothing is too hard for God Who created the immense universe. There is nothing too big and nothing too small that God is not concerned about in your life. There’s nothing too big because it’s all small stuff to our omnipotent God. Even in Job’s despondency, he acknowledged that “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2). Jeremiah the Prophet said of God, “It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you” (Jer 32:17).
We Can Do Nothing Without Him
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It is plain that without Jesus Christ in our life, we can do nothing of eternal consequence. Jesus Himself said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). And the last time I checked, nothing is not a little “something.” It is just “As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me” (John 15:4). No man, no machine, no thing can calm the storm in your life…but Jesus can. He has before (Luke 8:24). Even in the depths of being unfairly thrown into prison, the Lord had not forsaken Joseph, as Scripture says, “And the Lord was with Joseph” (Gen 39:21). God was still in prison with Joseph, even though it looked like he’d never get out. God alone can open doors that no man can (2 Cor 2:12; Rev 3:7-8).
Our Confidence is in God (not self)
Our confidence should never be totally in our own abilities. We must trust in what only God can do when we are at an end of doing all we can. When we’ve done all we can, only God can do what only God can do. Jeremiah said, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD” (Jer 17:5), which is why we should “put no confidence in the flesh” (Phil 3:3b). Put your confidence in God. If you’re feeling hopeless right now, God changes not and still says, “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand” (Isaiah 41:10). It is “The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken” (Duet 31:3). How much easier to have hope, knowing that “it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you” (Duet 31:6), and if God went with Joshua, He will also go with you, wherever that is.
[4]Feel the presence of the Lord today and talk with him when you feel alone or in a desolate place.
Conclusion
I pray you have put your trust in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If that has not happened yet, my friend, you are in real danger of hell fire. And I mean, in immediate danger. You’re one breath, one heartbeat…one accident away from eternity when it will be too late to repent. Today is the best day to believe (2 Cor 6:2) since tomorrow is no guarantee. If Jesus Christ came today, here is your fate (Matt 7:21-23). This is why I plead with you as you read this, repent today…and I mean right now. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. If you do not, you will face God’s judgment after death guaranteed (Heb 9:27) or at Jesus Christ’s appearance (Rev 20:12-15), which could happen at any moment.
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Resource – Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), Crossway Bibles. (2007). ESV: Study Bible: English standard version. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles. Used by permission. All rights reserved.