The God of the odds
Posted by steve MUTHUSI on December 20, 2009
Season’s greetings!
Has God ever spoken to you a word that seemed odd, far fetched, impractical, incoherent, barely credible, unrealistic, absurd…or simply impossible! The kind that made Sarah laugh sarcastically The bible is full of such scenarios when God spoke and the next valid question was…How shall this be? The first chapter of the book of Luke presents two people with impossible life situations. The flow of these two odd narratives creates a growing tension of the impossible becoming possible. Elizabeth, Zechariahs wife is past child bearing age and God declares she is going to bare a child. That story left old Zechariah mute for thinking…aaah! No way. Impossible! He even gave a reason why it wasn’t going to happen. A valid one! Mary had never had relations with a man. The angel that had spoken to Zachariah comes to her with ‘good tidings’… “thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son” A valid question… “. I know not a man: how then can I believe that what you tell me will happen? God was answering Elizabeth’s prayer that would take away the disgrace of barrenness and her husband would be a happy father. Mary, a young maiden facing an unexpected and dangerous pregnancy and risks public disgraced for having a child out of wedlock and losing her ‘catch’…Joseph. Elizabeth is ‘too late’ and Mary is ‘too early’. To Elizabeth, its’ what was bizarre to happen at her age. To Mary it was what would be weird to even think of….They were not only blood relatives, their circumstances compared in an anomalous way! These odd situations are concluded by one of the most quoted verses in the bible. “For nothing is impossible with God” …Jesus, He who had been spoken of by the angel, was to later put it this way… “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” -Matthew 19:26b The word “impossible” (v. 37), which means to be “unable.” This word comes from placing a negative prefix on the word “possible,” changing something from being able to unable. May we not confine the power of God within narrow limits of our thinking. Let’s not stop at the ordinary way of generation. There is God’s extraordinary way What would you label ‘impossible’ in your life? Do you have a word from God that for some ‘reasons’ looks far from the norm. The lord is able to perform that which He has promised….Have Faith. Believe….and sing your song of praise even before the physical manifestation of the fulfillment of the promise. Mary did, and Elizabeth said to her… “…blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord!” Yes, that which the lord spoke concerning your life, ministry, destiny and all round including the ‘odd’ is possible. The question is, WILL YOU BELIEVE EVEN THE ODD ONES. Wishing you extraordinary blessings this season and beyond
Merry Christmas
Joyous 2010.
steve
