Our God is a god of imp0ssibilities

​I believe there are two words God loves hearing me say. He loves hearing me say: "that's impossible."

I believe he loves hearing me say those words because they set him up to say two words he loves saying: "watch this."

I've told some friends lately there are days when life feels impossible. Like, there are these dreams and visions of a life out in front of me that seem impossible to get to.

Yet, in the midst of that, I feel closer to God than I ever have.

I think that's because God is always waiting for us in the impossible. Our God is a God of impossibilities.

I suppose that's because - at least in my case - we rarely come calling on God when life is good. If we do, it's not with the same sense of urgency and dependency. God is a God that wants us to depend on him.

If you think that makes God arrogant and not loving - just reflect for a second on how good it makes you feel when your kids depend on you. Reflect on how loving you feel when in the midst of their impossibilities, you can offer them hope.

Because that is what defines impossibility - the complete lack of hope. And God's big "watch this" - it's the gift of hope. It's handing us big boxes of it in spaces where we thought it would never be found again.

God loves meeting us in the impossible.

A friend wrote these kind words to me the other day:

"Your depth, vulnerability and wisdom inspire me and I get the sense you’ve had some hard knocks so all the more gracious of you to turn your travails into lessons of hope and love!"

I was thinking about that this morning. Those hard knocks he is talking about - they were hard because they were all knocks that made life feel impossible. And my vulnerability in talking about them - that vulnerability comes in saying they were knocks I couldn't handle on my own. They were too much for me.

They were knocks where friends showed up knocking on the door saying we've got this.

And above all, they were knocks where God showed up knocking and reminding me that NOTHING is impossible.

Steven Furtick says, "you're only stuck if you stop."

God loves showing up in these impossible places in our lives, places where we are prone to getting stuck - and stopping - and taking our hands and saying, you don't need to know just yet where you're going, you just need to know you are going to take one more step.

God loves showing up and asking, do you remember some of those impossible places I've met you in before? Well they weren't so impossible now were they?

So I just need you to take my hand, God says to me. Take my hand as we take one more step.

And as we walk on, walk further down this trail of impossibility, hand in hand, I can hear God saying under his breath:

"watch this"