The Possible

[0:00] A pastor's reflections, the possible. Exodus 19, 17. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God,! And they stood at the nether part of the mount.

[0:12] ! Mark 16, 15. And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel. Philippians 4, 9. Those things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do.

[0:30] And the God of peace shall be with you. In our experience with God, we often find ourselves more focused upon the impossible than the possible.

[0:41] I find within God's word and will so many impossibilities that need accomplishing that I become overwhelmed with how any of these things will ever come about. Who is sufficient for these things?

[0:55] 2 Corinthians 3, 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves. To think anything as of ourselves. But our sufficiency is of God. In Exodus 19, Israel is at the mount of God.

[1:09] They have encamped before what appears to be just any other mountain. But on the morning of the third day, that mountain became something altogether, beyond anything, they could have ever expected.

[1:20] As the mountain quaked and burned with fire, I imagine that many in Israel were asking themselves who they thought they were, that they could ever live up to being the people of God.

[1:34] How were they sufficient to answer the voice and the trumpet? Who were they that they should be charged with the covenant? And with what capability would they meet this impossible moment?

[1:46] Matthew 19, 26. But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

[1:58] As we look before us into the future impossibilities of our life, we can so often become overwhelmed by what we see there. How are we ever to become all that God wants us to be?

[2:12] Where do we even begin? James 4, 8. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. We begin by doing the possible.

[2:23] God has called us to impossible things. He does not expect us to do impossible things on our own. He will handle the impossible.

[2:36] Our part is to simply do the possible. As Israel approached the mount of God, they were doing all that God had asked them to do. They had prepared themselves to meet their God, and then gone forth to that place of meeting.

[2:51] In the same way, we have been given much that we can do that is possible. Believe that God is able to accomplish the impossible, and then go forth and do the possible.

[3:06] Father, thank you for being God of my impossibilities, as well as God of my possibilities. Thank you that in Jesus, the impossible not only becomes possible, but glorious.

[3:18] Help me today to walk in what is possible, trusting you to do the impossible. Amen.