Would you survive as Indiana Jones?
The definition of the word “Impossible” is “something that cannot be done.” I’ve been thinking a little about this concept in the past couple of days. We have a tendency to think that certain things are impossible. We go there pretty quickly sometimes. If something is difficult, or tough, we almost seem to approach it as if it’s impossible. And the definition of “impossible” is pretty self-defeating.
Then comes Jesus and he has the audacity to say in Matthew 19:26: “Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.” Have you ever thought about that statement? That with God everything is possible? I mean, Jesus doesn’t say that “some things are possible”, or that “really difficult things are possible”, but he says that “all things are possible.” That’s a pretty crazy statement.
Here’s why this matters to me. There are a couple of us here in Barrie that are feeling that God wants us to do something about the housing crunch that seems to be going on around us. There are people that are trying as hard as they can, but they’re still not able to make the rent, and we think that shouldn’t be. So what we’re thinking is that we’d like to buy up a few of the rougher streets in town and clean them up and provide housing for these people at decent and manageable rates. The problem is that to us this dream seems a little impossible. It’s the kind of dream that you think is a good idea, but it’s never going to fly, but then comes Jesus saying that with God, anything is possible! What are you supposed to do with that? How are you supposed to ignore the calling that God has put on your heart now?
So I guess the real trick now is how do you go about doing something that you know is impossible? I almost feel like Indiana Jones in the “Quest for the Holy Grail” when he has to start walking across the invisible bridge. I feel like we’re stepping into the great unknown, and there are no guarantees. Like every step might be our last, but at the same time I feel like there this calling onward that I just can’t ignore. Like there’s this understanding that I’m on the right track, but I don’t totally know what the track is supposed to look like.
So like I said, I don’t know what the next steps are going to look like, but I do know we’re headed in the right way. I do know that even though things look impossible they’re not really. And I do know that even though it looks like we’re just going to be giving money away, that somehow the Kingdom is going to come through this idea.
I guess what’s obvious is that I don’t really know much, but I do know that “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”
