What is your impossible?

Question #1: What is your impossible? 

Do you have overwhelming debt? A horrible health diagnoses? An eviction notice? A calling that you know God has given you but it seems it will never come to pass? 

Question #2: How does your impossible compare to Mary's? 

Mary was a teenage virgin with no special influence or position and she was told by an angel that she would become pregnant with the Messiah! 

In our Christian society we talk about the virgin birth regularly enough that it has become normal. A virgin giving birth is scientifically impossible. Mary's cousin Elizabeth was old and barren and miraculously became pregnant but at least in that case science could try and explain it away. But a virgin giving birth, that can't be explained away. The only argument people can make is to argue the veracity of her virginity.

I can only imagine what must have gone through Mary's head when the angel gave her the news. 

"Is this really happening?"

"How can this be?"

"How will I explain this to Joseph?" 

But in the end she says, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." (Luke 1:37)

Despite the seemingly impossible situation Mary believed and agreed to go through whatever ridicule she would have to go through in order to fulfill the Lord's purpose.

So for this Christmas season, I ask again: What is our impossible? 

Take some time to meditate on the angel's words to Mary:

"For nothing will be impossible with God."