ADVENTure Day 15 –

Christmas is a season of the impossible!  No I am not talking about Santa and flying reindeer.  The season starts with the improbable, the birth of John the Baptist to parents who were way too old to bear children.  Then in culminates with the birth of Jesus to a virgin.  This, of course, is impossible.

I have spent most of the last thirty years attending Pentecostal churches.  While they are not the pew jumping, snake handling, preacher shouting kind of churches that I know are out there, I have seen my share of miracles, starting with the conception and birth of my daughter.  I have seen people healed of cancer, asthma, and chronic pain.  I have also heard reports from missionary friends of the blind seeing, the crippled walking, and lame hands made whole.  God seems to delight in breaking the laws of science.

Here’s my take on that.  If God created the universe to be governed by the laws of science, surely He can suspend those laws as He sees fit.  Now, I do not believe that God is some genie that has to give you anything you ask for.  God is sovereign.  I will spare you the complex theological discussion about why God sometimes allows miracles and sometimes does not.  Just know He can do the impossible.

Is there something impossible that you are up against?  Perhaps you have a dream that seems out of reach.  Take comfort in Jeremiah 32:17 (NKJV) – “Ah, Lord God!  Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm.  There is nothing too hard for You.”  Pray for that impossibility of yours in this season of miracles and don’t be surprised when the Lord brings about the impossible.