CrossLife Church- Pflugerville, TX

You, Impossible, and God

What is your impossibility? Did the doctors say that your daughter will never be able to hear? Have you spent your way into insurmountable debt? 

Sometimes our impossibilities are our greatest fears. I have a great fear of failure. It can keep me from trying new things, from taking adventures and from humbly accepting criticism. What are you afraid of?

Most of us spend our lives running away from the things we’re afraid of. Oh, we do lots of running, but we’re running in the wrong direction. Like God’s prophet Jonah, running away from God’s bigger plans and purposes toward what Jonah wanted: a safe place with his small god. 

So on our faith journey we allow impossibilities to get between us and God. Instead, we need to put God between us and our impossibilities. There’s a reason that God often makes the command “Do not be afraid” in the Bible partnered with the promise “I am with you.” 

Before he faced the giant Goliath, young David told the Israelite soldiers that he had killed a lion, and what that meant for him facing Goliath. “The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine” (1 Samuel 17:37). 

Between David and his impossibility of surviving an attack from a man-eating beast—was God. And that’s how David looked at the giant Goliath, too. Through the lens of his awesome God. Goliath didn’t stand a chance.

God’s dream for your life is much bigger than not sinning, much better than the wrong things you are chasing, much bolder than going to church on Sundays but not serving or growing or witnessing. 

God doesn’t want you to hold down the fort in fear. He wants you to go after your impossibility. What impossibility do you need to repent of? 

Stop settling for small faith, small dreams, and a small god. God “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).

PRAYER: Dear God, some things are impossible for me only because I think they are. Strengthen my faith to face my fears, to see you always between me and my impossibilities, and to not just survive but thrive. Amen.

FURTHER MEDITATION: Read 1 Samuel 17:45-47. David tells Goliath about his big God. How many times in this speech does David mention that God stands between David and Goliath?