Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)
In a comment on Friday’s Catch, one of our Catch members used the phrase “living in the impossible,” and I immediately lit on that as something I could use in my life as a daily challenge. Living by faith would of necessity put me in the realm of the impossible or else faith would not be necessary.
This does not mean that we are regularly healing the sick and raising the dead; it just means we are doing what for us would be impossible without the enabling of the Holy Spirit. It could be something as simple as balancing a checkbook if that is something that is your responsibility that seems beyond you.
To tell you the truth, a good deal of what is required of me these days seems beyond me. That is not a bad thing; it just puts me in the realm of the impossible most of the time, which means I require a daily, moment-by-moment faith in order to carry on. If this isn’t also true for you, you might want to consider whether you might have arranged your life is such a way as to not need faith to live. Please don’t think that by saying this, I am necessarily doing it. I’m simply realizing what a life of faith looks like. It means different things to different people, yet it remains in this way the same for all of us — that God is asking us to do what is beyond the realm of human possibility for us, but what is easy for Him.
So what is that for you? Being a good husband, father, wife or mother… being a good employee… connecting with the needs of those around you… getting outside yourself to see and feel with others… being obedient to God… pulling your own weight… making right what you have done wrong…? The list could go on. Whatever for you is impossible, as long as it is something that needs to be done, it is now within the realm of possibility for you because “with God, all things are possible.”
John Fischer The Catch 
Right now, I’m struggling in every area of my life: physically, personally, financially, relationally – even in my relationship with my Heavenly Father. And yet, I don’t feel hopeless. Yesterday I was thinking, in the old days, people used to talk a lot about the devil, and would attribute anything negative that happened to them as being caused by him. But the devil really isn’t a factor in our lives anymore. He was defeated by Christ on the cross and through His resurrection. Christians are no longer a part of his realm. So when negative things happen to us, it is God the Father allowing those things for the loving reason of building our character. We no longer qualify for the “Job syndrome” or, “God, why me?!” school of thinking, because Christ freed us from that. Thus, negative things are no longer negative for us because they have a positive purpose.
The word “impossible” belongs to the devil’s realm. That’s his word. Our word is, “With God, all things are possible.” And that is our only word on the subject because we are always “with God” – He will not leave us nor forsake us. So we are always living in the realm where impossible is the norm, not the exception. We need to get that through our heads.
Thanks for your post.
“It could be something as simple as balancing a checkbook if that is something that is your responsibility that seems beyond you.” I’ve not looked at this horribly frustrating “job” my husband has insisted that I do in this manner before…you’d think I’d learn after 42 years of marriage!! Thanks to you and to the Catch member who coined this phrase perhaps I’ll finally be able to “LIVE” in this “impossible place” I find myself stuck in every month.
Would like to add an Amen to this quote: “with God, all things are possible.”
I like this a lot! Thanks, John! I am turning over my human frailties to God–again!
Encouragement and a lighted path forward for free. Great Catch! Thanks, John.
Impossible Hope
http://www.damaris.org/content/culturewatcharticles/1498
Please pray for my son Bradley.
i surely will gina and God’s speed & blessings to you and him…