Day 28

Sometimes God’s agenda flies in the face of reason, logic, and possibility.

‘Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.’ (Ephesians 3:20)

When I was a young man, Major Ian Thomas said something to me that I found tremendously helpful. He said, ‘Never make your first question – is it possible? Make your first question – is it right?’ The Major then went on to say to me, ‘A thing doesn’t have to be possible; it just has to be right.’

Possible things are not always right. Right things don’t always seem possible. If we live only in the realm of the possible, we live in the realm everybody else on the street lives. The Christian is called to live in the realm of what is right, and sometimes what is right defies natural understanding. If the people of God were hemmed in by their sense of the possible, there would have been no exodus from Egypt, no conquering of Goliath, no return to Israel from exile, no healing of the sick and the Church would have become snuffed out in one generation. But when men and women discerned from God what was right, they advanced in dependence on One who was bigger than they, and who would bring what was right into living experience.

Lord, open my eyes to the possibilities in following Your will.