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I think it goes without saying sometimes life is so difficult, it may even seem impossible. When I was a single father one day I decided I just didn't have the energy to fix my 3 girls dinner so I took them out to eat at Subway. The older two girls Samantha and Sophia were standing on their tip toes looking over the countertop trying to decide what toppings they wanted on their sandwiches and Sara was in my arms. I looked at Sara and I asked her what she wanted and she looked at me and said, Daddy I don't feel good. Then she puked all down the front of my shirt. I learned that day just exactly what those glass shields were for at Subway. I took Sara and myself to the bathroom and cleaned us up the best I could then went back out and finished ordering our dinner. Needless to say our order was to go that day.
When I was 23 years old I had a little boy named, Jerry Craig. When he was born he had a very rare genetic birth defect that caused him to have no platelets so he was a bleeder and he also had nearly no immune system. He lived 3 months before passing away. Eighteen months later I had another little boy, Levi Blake, who was still born. I was so overwhelmed with all the details of arranging the funeral services and caring for the rest of my grieving family that I didn't even realize that my still born son had been born on fathers day. At times life can seem so impossible! Abraham was 75 years old and had no children yet God told him that he would be the father of many nations. If that didn't seem impossible enough when his son Isaac was born God asked him to offer his son as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah.
Genesis 22: 1-2 NIV Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
So what are we to do when God seems to be giving us a mission impossible task? Trust and Obey! When God calls you to an impossible assignment, the first response you need to have is trust. You need to trust, that God will carry you through the assignment to completion. You need to trust that he will be with you each step of the way. The second response is obedience, doing what God has called you to do. Trust that doesn’t move can’t be trusted! Obedience without trust leads to grumbling. But trust that wears the shoes of obedience is powerful.
Luke 1:37 NKJV For with God nothing will be impossible.
Maybe one of the greatest, “Mission Impossible” moments happened more than 2,000 years ago, a young woman from the town of Nazareth named Mary was visited by an angel named Gabriel. The Angel Gabriel told her that she would have a son named Jesus, who would be God's Son. Mary wondered how this was possible since she had not been with a man.
Luke 1:34-36 NIV How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin? The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.
So how did Mary respond to her Mission Impossible moment? She was obedient and said, I am the Lord’s servant.
