Week 2, Wednesday: Rethinking Impossible

Read Luke 1:34-38

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Alice actually had it right.

You CAN'T believe impossible things. That's why they're impossible. No amount of practice before breakfast can change facts. Mary was no more inclined to believe impossible things than we are, which is why she wondered how what the angel had told her could happen.

But Gabriel wasn't asking her to believe the impossible -- he was asking her to rethink it. And what he told her was that impossible didn't exist with God. If he can do anything, there's nothing impossible to believe, because "all things are possible."

Is there anything in your life that has felt like it would be impossible for God to do? It is not beyond him. Take it to him today.