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Two Statements/Same Point
Is anything too hard for the LORD? (Gen. 18:14)
For nothing will be impossible with God. (Luke 1:37)
The two statements above were made about 2,000 years apart. What the first asks rhetorically, the second answers affirmatively. Both statements were made to bolster faith in a wonderful promise God had just made:
I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son… (Genesis 18:10).
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus (Luke 1:31).
In each case there was an obvious obstacle: Sarah was well past the normal age of childbearing, and Mary was a virgin. In neither case was this a problem for God. God can do anything He pleases. And He did!
Another two thousand years have passed since Gabriel appeared to Mary to announce that she would be the mother of the Christ. Is it still true today that nothing is impossible with God? Has God changed? “Is the LORD’s hand shortened?” (Numbers 11:23).
While God no longer chooses to use His power in miraculous ways today, as in enabling Sarah and Mary to conceive, God continues working powerfully in our day.
It is to this unchanging, all-powerful God that we pray. He “is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).
Believe it!
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
