There are so many stories in the Bible where the circumstances looked impossible yet God’s promises prevailed.

 

Sarah and Elizabeth were well past their child-birthing years, yet God enabled each one to conceive a son at the right time. Incidentally, the two boys grew up to be key figures in history.

 

Mary and Martha must have thought their lives were over when Lazarus—their brother and source of freedom and provision—died, yet Jesus raised him from the dead and brought a new kind of life to the sisters.

 

Ruth thought her family line and story were over when her husband died, yet God had other plans, even grafting her into the Saviour’s line.

 

Israel, too, was on the brink of destruction until God intervened. After they had escaped the clutches of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites found themselves in a desert with no food or water supply. Wouldn’t you be worried, too, if your food and water supplies were dwindling and you couldn’t see a town for miles ahead? Yet God intervened and not only provided them with manna—a bread from heaven—but quail and water, too.

 

God provided for each of these people in unexpected ways that deconstructed their idea of what was possible, because with Christ, all things are possible. Since God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He wants to do the same for us. Like bread falling from the sky, a dead man walking, or a woman giving birth after a long, hard wait, God is asking us if we trust Him enough to provide—even when our circumstances seem impossible and God’s promises go beyond man’s wisdom and understanding.

 

Will we trust Him to provide when the doctors tell us it’s impossible, when the money is running low, when our kids rebel, and when we don’t know how we’ll make it through another day? Let’s stand in faith and keep walking forwards, saying with the saints, “It is well with my soul.” 

 

Let’s trust the God who says all things are possible!