how can this be--part 2

“How can this be?” ---Mary (Luke 1)

“Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God.”

“For nothing is impossible with God.” Or, all things are possible. There is nothing—no- thing too hard for the Lord. All things can happen, no matter how absurd or ridiculous as long as the Spirit of the Lord is behind it. No matter how illogical or impossible it may sound, with God, it can happen. It doesn’t matter if we think it makes sense or not. I am not too sure God is concerned with making sense.

If all things are possible, then what are we to expect? If God can do far more than our wildest dreams or expectations, more than we could ever dare ask or imagine (Eph. 3:21-22), then how are we to pray? Wildly! Largely! Without limits!

And the drums are beating wildly in anticipation of the arrival. Echoes are bouncing and ricocheting off the cracks and crevices of the earth. All of creation is on edge as they watch the two most unlikely women get ready to have children.

Neither of them should be pregnant. One is a virgin and the other is too old. I wish I could have been there when they pulled one another aside in a secret place and exchanged their stories and are enveloped in laughter and wonder. It is laughable if we box these circumstances in with only our finite human minds. But for some reason, this is how God has chosen to work. These two babies--these two children--One has journeyed from Heaven and will save the world and the other will go ahead of Him in order to get the world’s attention; to get them ready to listen. Come, Lord Jesus, come!

“…blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished.”---Luke 1:45