“Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20b)
I recently read this piece written by Bishop Handley C. G. Moule that set me to thinking. He wrote:
“It is possible for believers who are completely willing to trust the power of the Lord for their safekeeping and victory to lead a life of readily taking His promises exactly as they are and finding them to be true.
It is possible to daily ‘cast all your anxiety on Him’ (1 Peter 5:7) and experience deep peace in the process.
It is possible to have our thoughts and the desires of our hears purified in the deepest sense of the word.
It is possible to see God’s will in every circumstance and to accept it with singing instead of complaining.
It is possible to become strong through and through by completely taking refuge in the power of God and by realizing that our greatest weakness and the things that upset our determination to be patient, pure, or humble provide an opportunity to make sin powerless over us. This opportunity comes through Him who loves us and who works to bring us into agreement with His will, and thereby supplies a blessed sense of His presence and His power.
All these are divine possibilities, because they are His work, actually experiencing them will always humble us, causing us to bow at His feet and teaching us to hunger and thirst for more. We will never be satisfied with anything less…each day, each hour, or each moment in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit…than walking with God.”
If Bishop Moule is correct…and, I believe he is…if this kind of life is possible, then whatever in the world keeps us from living in its reality? As Jesus said in the beginning portion of the verse above in Matthew 17:20,…it is “unbelief and lack of faith!”
But, just what is it that is required for us as believers to experience these divine possibilities? I think Jesus made it quite simple when He said things like: “Come to Me”; “Learn from me”; “Follow Me”; “Trust Me”; “Obey Me”; “Abide in Me.” Every one of these instructions are given in the present tense to let us know that an ongoing one on one relationship with Him is possible! It is real…it is loving…and it is a joy!
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