The God of the impossible

“For with God nothing shall be impossible.”Luke 1:37

Reflection

This sentence was not spoken on a stage, on a day of victory. It was spoken by an angel to a teenager from a despised town, pregnant in a way no one would believe, engaged to a man about to leave her. And as if that were not enough, the angel pointed to her relative: Elizabeth, barren and old, also expecting a child. God chose two impossible wombs — one too young and a virgin, the other too old and closed — to write the central chapter of human history. That is His style.

Walk through the Bible and notice the pattern: a sea opening before a cornered people, a wall falling without an army, a giant brought down by a shepherd boy, five loaves becoming a banquet, an empty tomb on the third morning. God seems to specialize precisely at the point where human possibilities end. Not because He enjoys our despair — but because it is there, where no one else can take the credit, that the glory stays entirely His and the faith becomes unforgettable to us.

And if your faith is too small for this impossible, there is an honest prayer Jesus never rejected. A father of a sick boy cried out: "I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24) — faith and doubt in the same sentence — and the miracle came. Jesus said faith the size of a mustard seed is enough to move mountains. God does not require giant faith to act; He requires real faith, even trembling, placed in the right direction. Look now at your "impossible": the diagnosis, the distant child, the cold marriage, the old addiction, the debt that won’t close. Have you handed it over — or just resigned yourself to it? Mary answered the angel with the sentence that unlocks miracles: "let it be to me according to your word". Say the same today.

Bible text: King James Version (public domain).