Impossible Possibilities

John 10:10

King James Version (KJV)

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

You find it hard to believe that a miracle working, grave abandoning Jesus is capable of so much deliverance and you've been in the same place for several years. It's hard to believe that a man without fault could take on the sins of the world after wrapping himself in human flesh (John 1:14) just to die on a cross for a people who took no thought in persecuting him, who took no thought in beating him  literally beyond recognition. Meanwhile you feel as if you're in the third round of a WWE smack down and life is winning. You're in awe of the fact that Jesus (the son of God) once declared dead, rose (Mark 16:9) early Sunday morning with what witnesses described as all power in his hand and you personally don't even have the will power to get up and get dressed in the morning. They say Jesus is on the main line, that he's a present help, they say that he's the beginning and the end, a deliverer, healer, way maker, protector, provider, the lion of Judah, the cornerstone, Mary's baby, the Lamb of God, the great I am, a miracle worker, a wheel in the middle of a wheel, shelter in a time of storm, but today you want him to be a future husband, a new boss better yet a new job, a few dollars in my pocket, a new house, a better car, a college degree, a graduate school opportunity, a financial breakthrough, a paid bill, a something, an anything that would make life a little easier after all isn't that what he died for that I might have a right to have and ask for anything that I need?

Easter for a number amount of years for you has been full of nothing, but tradition. Egg hunts, church, and a family dinner have always found their way on to your schedule accompanied with a serious need to be especially fashionable on that blessed day. Your prerogative is to look good, the goal is to show out in your Sunday Best because you don't want anyone to think for just a second that you've missed a beat. Your faith is shaky and you feel as if the mentioning of the resurrection is a sour reminder of the lack of miracle in your life, but trust and believe you've got it all mixed up. Yes as believers we believe and have faith that Christ sacrificed his life on Calvary's Cross, he did indeed die on the cross (1 Corinthians 15:3), was buried in a borrowed tomb, rose on the third day, and descended into Heaven to go and sit on the right hand side of God that father, but left us with a comforter the Holy Spirit who leads and guides us in the way of truth. We believe that the shedding of Jesus' innocent blood (1 Peter 2:22) is what qualifies us and gives us the right to repent of our sins and be forgiven (Romans 10:9). To ask God to save us "sinners" and save us a place in eternity to be wherever it is that he is. The question for you becomes do you believe the report of The Lord?

Scripture tells us that without faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). What's separating you from your miracle is your lack of faith. And the comfort that you've found in the place of what looks like a cycle of defeat. Unlike any other religion in the world you serve a God of everlastings, Jesus is not dead. You serve a resurrected God, who just so happened to be the same God who breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of man (John 1:1), and so if God was able to raise Jesus from the dead, surely he's more than able more than capable to resurrecting your joy, peace, and happiness by breathing into your situation, your marriage, your household, your community, your church, your ministry, and everywhere else the breath of life, but you've got to believe.

After all of that belief you've got to have faith, that God is able to do what he promised you. You must believe that he will allow every word that he's spoken over your life to come to pass, and that if no one else Jesus' loves you. If no one else he who created you cares for you and thought enough of you to plan out how many hair follicles you would have, the color of your eyes, the size of your feet, the dynamics of your nose, he even sculpted your beautiful face, that he might look at you and say, it is Good. Leave your happiness to take on Jesus' joy, leave your trials to take on Jesus' triumph. Leave your mess to embrace Jesus' message that you might no longer live life on the sideline. Understanding that Christ died so that you would have an opportunity to live, then rose so that death would no longer be able to sting you with it's ray. Take on Jesus, all of Jesus, by embracing his love that you might understand that although everyday is not Easter you have someone working in your favor and on your behalf.

Let us bow:

Heavenly Father,

We can we recommit ourselves to the call, responsibility, and purpose that you have bestowed upon our lives. We thank you for the sacrifice of your son Jesus. We thank you for the blood that was shed for the mission of sin. We thank you for looking beyond our fault to see our need, that they might be provided for. You allowed us to wake up to new grace and new mercy and for that we are grateful. You've allowed us to push and press that we might come this far leaning on your everlasting arm and we say thank you. You've protected us and kept us from harms way, and we thank you. We ask that you create in us a clean heart that we might adopt your joy, peace, and understanding. We ask that you restore the joy of our salvation that we might look upon our personal situation with gratitude understanding that it was only you, and that it is only by your grace that we've been kept. We ask that you strengthen us that we might have the courage to stand up for you when others have retracted their testimony. We ask that you give us the courage to trust you when things don't look like they're working in our favor. Help us to love regardless of the hate, push no matter the pain, try in spite of the tribulation understanding that you said in your that you would never leave us or forsake us. Have you way, like only you can in every aspect of our lives for it is in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus the Christ we pray, Amen!