There are all kinds of things which were once
thought to be impossible but now they exist. For example, almost everyone
reading this post has a device in their pocket that can perform functions which
would have been considered outside the realm of possibility even 75 years ago.
Think about telling a person in 1940, “Seventy five
years from now I will have a small device in my pocket—which will be
unconnected to any wires—and I will be able to speak the name of a destination into
that device. The device will then give me precise verbal directions to the
destination.”
The person would have been likely to tell you, “I
doubt it.” Ironically, a smarter and better educated person would have been
more capable of providing legitimate reasons why such a thing would not be
possible.
But here we are in 2015 and we practically take such
a miracle for granted. In fact we are irritated if our phone’s GPS service is a
little slower than it ought to be.
Think about this: Much of what exists in terms of technological
achievement, if we go back in history far enough, would have been considered
impossible.
Long ago—way before cell phones—God was challenging
us to think in terms of possibilities. With His help; His guidance; His insight;
His encouragement; His power and an understanding that He is not limited in the
ways we are; utilizing the intellect and the skills He has given us; God wants
us to consider impossibilities to be mountains which are capable of being
moved.
God was encouraging outside-the-box thinking, based
on faith in Him, long before the phrase “outside-the-box” had been coined.
“I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as
small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to
there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” Jesus, Matthew 17:20
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