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Wednesday—December 14th

Nothing Is Impossible for God
Luke 1:26-38
It is impossible to lick your elbow. Go ahead and try. While you are attempting (and failing) at
that, try to tickle yourself. Did you laugh? While you are attempting (and failing) at that too, try
to keep your eyes open the next time you sneeze. It’s not going to happen.
Here’s one more human impossibility. It is impossible for a woman to conceive and give birth
to a child without a man being involved. So when the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would
conceive and give birth to God’s son, she asked a very logical question. “How will this be?”
Gabriel answered that God would make it possible because “nothing is impossible with God.”
It really doesn’t matter if you can lick your elbow, tickle yourself, or keep your eyes open when
you sneeze. That has no impact on your life. On the other hand, it absolutely matters that that
we haven’t lived as the holy and sinless people that God expects us to be, but still God did the
impossible for us. He sent his own son born of a virgin and born under the law to live the
perfect life that we haven’t. He sent his son to die in our place so that we would be declared
forgiven.
There is incredible comfort in this. You can always trust God’s Word and promises no matter
how impossible they sound. It sounded impossible that a virgin would conceive and give birth
to God’s own son. But then it happened! It sounds impossible that we could live in peace in a
world full of sin and sorrow. But Jesus makes it happen! It sounds impossible that one day God
will wipe every tear from our eyes and that there will be no more death or mourning or crying
or pain. But Jesus will make it happen! Do you know how we know?
Nothing is impossible with God.
PRAYER:
Dearest Jesus, fill my heart with the comfort of your sure and certain promises. You were born,
you lived, and you died for me that I might live and die in your forgiveness and peace eternally.
Strengthen me in that certainty. Amen.
ACTIVITY:
Read through (or recite!) the Apostles’ Creed together. Focus especially on what we confess
about Jesus and his work. It sounds impossible, but it is most certainly true!

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