Nothing will be impossible with God

Have you ever had a week when the same theme keeps popping up in what you are doing?

Lately, I keep running across the idea that God makes in the impossible, possible. It came up in a letter I was writing. It came up again in our Sunday school lesson last week. Tonight I was looking at the lectionary readings for the week, and the theme popped up in my mind again. Look at this passage from Isaiah:

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and rushes. (Isaiah 35:5-7)

Doesn't that sound like God making the impossible, possible?

Then I read the Gospel passage for the week, from Matthew. John the Baptist is in prison, and he is wondering if the one he is hearing so much about is "the one who is to come." He sends one of his disciples to go and check it out. Jesus tells the disciple to return to John and to tell him what he is seeing.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. Matthew 11:4-5

Jesus is telling John that he is the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. He is telling him and us that the impossible has been made possible through God.

This is Christmas. It is all about God making the impossible, possible. Gabriel says to Mary, "nothing will be impossible with God." It's the last words he says to her. Maybe this is what he wants her to remember the most.

Maybe this is what God wants us to remember the most.

Nothing will be impossible with God.