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just and yet the justifier of the ungodly.
Of the salvation of the rich, Christ Himself
says, “With man this is impossible, but with God all
things are possible” (Matt 19:26).
The
sanctification of an unholy soul is simply impossible.
“Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one” (Job 14:4).
The promise to Abraham, the father of
believers, was something impossible. It was when
his body was as good as dead that God called him to
believe in the birth of a son, and then fulfilled that
promise by giving him Isaac, when he was past age
(Heb 11:8-12).
A. B. Simpson
'Pray for the impossible!' These words belong
to the language of faith and the kingdom of heaven.
God loves hard things. God combines the little and
the great. It is His glory to treat the hardest and
mightiest things as mere trifles.
When promising one of His greatest miracles,
through the ancient prophet, He added, “This is a
light thing in the sight of the Lord.” (2 Ki 3:18).
When Jesus was about to heal and save the poor
paralytic, His words were very strange and striking,
“Which is easier?” (Mark 2:9). But man would have
said, “Which is harder?” But the greatest thing was
very easy for Him.
All God's greatest acts have been things
impossible for anybody but God. Creation was
making a universe out of nothing. Redemption was
overcoming a difficulty that was absolutely
impossible for any human wisdom or power, to be
David could not have his kingdom until he was
reduced to such a helpless condition that it had to be a
miracle of divine power.
Jehoshaphat's mightiest victory came in the
hour when baffled, perplexed and helpless, he could
only say, “ For we are powerless against this great
horde that is coming against us. We do not know what
to do, but our eyes are on you” (2 Chr 20:12).
Hezekiah's healing came even after God had
declared that he must die and could not live (2 Ki
20:1-6).
Daniel's wonderful deliverance was
accomplished after Darius had labored till the going
down of the sun to find some way of escape for him,
and had found it impossible (Dan 6:12-22).
Esther was used of God to save her people even
after the decree of doom had gone forth irrevocably
from the king, and even he could not take it back (Est
9:25-32).
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O F I N T E G
With God All Things Are
Possible
Israel's deliverance did not come until they had
reached the lowest depths of despair and all human
hope was dead. God's hour is the impossible, and
God's opportunity is man's emergency. The support
of Israel, as a nation in the wilderness for half a
century, was a miracle of Providence.
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