Impossible to Possible
The Lord Jesus was about to return to heaven. He knew He was leaving behind an unsaved world, nation upon nation that had not heard the gospel. Hugely different people with many different ways of thinking; a world full of problems and evil. Jesus had to hand over the responsibility of proclaiming the gospel to this world. And all He had before Him were eleven failures - His disciples!
One of them had denied that he knew Jesus.
Another had doubted eyewitness' accounts of His resurrection and would not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead unless he could put his finger in his wounds.
Still another had said he would go wherever Jesus went and even die with Him but ran away.
Still another had said he would go wherever Jesus went and even die with Him but ran away.
It was to this dubious bunch that Jesus was handing over the task of reaching the whole world. If I were Jesus, I would have never even chosen those eleven, let alone trust them after what they had done. But Jesus did still go on trusting them, and gave them confidence with His declaration in Matthew 28:18:
"... All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."
No doubt they were happy that all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to their Master. But Jesus didn't stop there. He went on to tell them in Mark 16:15:
"... Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."
At that the disciples must have missed a heartbeat! Perhaps they thought: "I've never even been to the other side of this city, so how can I go into the whole world? I'm too scared to stand up and speak in front of a couple of people, and Jesus tells me to go into the whole world and preach the gospel. It's impossible!"
Yes, friends, the disciples were sent on an impossible mission of reaching out to people from all walks of life in many different cultures, which included many hotbeds of demons and witchcraft. But Jesus didn't shrink from giving them this job, even though at that time they had no television, no microphones or P.A systems, no aeroplanes, buses, jeeps or cars. Today we have all these things, and much more, but imagine the gargantuan task that faced these men at the time they were commanded to "Go into all the world"!
If you were in their place, would you have expected to succeed? Now don't be very spiritual and say "Yes, Rambabu". Be honest.
Eleven failures who had rejected Jesus, who never Went out of their country even once, most of them uneducated and without resources, now had to bring the message to every creature! Does that really sound feasible, bearing in mind their circumstances and the means at their disposal? When I read this command in the Bible, and upend time meditating on their lifestyle, I can't help thinking: "Not possible, Lord."
I said to God: "I am Rambabu, and I live in this small city of Bellary. I'm just a teenager of 18, I've never been to church, I don't know anybody outside India, no Christian outside my city knows I exist, and I've had no Bible training. These were my "impossible" conditions, fairly similar to the disciples of Jesus.
I thought for some time about how I could reach out to people with the gospel, and then asked: "Lord, you have commanded me to go, so that actually means I can go. But the question is how?"
You may ask: "I know Jesus can heal me but how? The preacher may declare that the Lord can build up my life. Or he tells me God can turn bitterness into sweetness. But in all these situations, the question is: 'How can this be?' "How can the impossible become possible?"
If you can take in what I'm sharing with you now, all impossibilities in your life will be turned in to possibilities. In whichever area of your life you have written the word "impossible" you will cross it out and replace it will "possible".
Someone in the Bible asked the same question. Am! the answer she received is the same one God gives you am! me. Come with me to Luke 1:26 - 33:
In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said: 'Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you." Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the Angel said to her: "Do not be afraid, Mary you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."
Here is a young virgin. She never knew a man. Yet the angel of the Lord appears to her and tells her that she is going to have a son.
Now ask yourself, can a young woman who has never had any relation with a man have a child? Is that possible or impossible?
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