"Believe ye that I am able to do this?" (Matt. 9:28).
Today's Scripture & Insight:
Matthew 9:28-31 (NIV)28 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied. 29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; 30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 31 But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
God deals with impossibilities. It is never too late for Him to do so, when the impossible is brought to Him, in full faith, by the one in whose life and circumstances the impossible must be accomplished if God is to be glorified. If in our own life there have been rebellion, unbelief, sin, and disaster, it is never too late for God to deal triumphantly with these tragic facts if brought to Him in full surrender and trust.
It has often been said, and with truth, that Christianity is the only religion that can deal with man's past. God can "restore the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25); and He will do this when we put the whole situation and ourselves unreservedly and believingly into His hands.
Not because of what we are but because of what He is. God forgives and heals and restores. He is "the God of all grace." Let us praise Him and trust Him. --Sunday School Times
"We have a God who delights in impossibilities." Nothing too hard for Me. --Andrew Murray
Today’s Hymns:
He’s Able to carry me through
Nothing Is Impossible
Scripture to Respond:
Jeremiah 32:17 (NIV)
“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Mark 9:23-24 (NIV)
23 “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
Reflection:
What we believe is the one who creates from nothing and gives life to the dead! It is nothing impossible in Him. Are there any problems you feel impossible to solve? Any obstacles you feel unable to cross over? Is it because our faith is too little to experience His power?
Thank God! If our faith is not enough, we can still plea to the merciful Lord to increase our faith.
Prayer:
Lord, please increase my faith in You and let me trust Your guiding hand on impossibilities. I believe when it is impossible with man, everything is possible in God.
Wong Wai Tung
(Chief executive officer of The Great Wall Education Foundation) &
Sam Chow
(Administrative officer of The Great Wall Education Foundation)
