Nothing is Impossible: Part 2

"For nothing is impossible with God."- Luke 1:37

     So I told you that last week I was in the middle of the Christmas reading plan on Youversion and I read this verse. Well last week I also thought that I had gotten the full effect of the verse too. Today after I got done with my AP Calculus mid-term, I was reading some more in the book of Isaiah. What is funny is that nothing I was reading in Isaiah had to do with what happened while I was reading. I was sitting there and then a thought just runs through my head about his verse. I just got to thinking about it, and once again, I thought that I had gotten the full effect of the verse, but I was wrong.

     The thought that ran through my head was about the word before God in this verse. I feel like that is the most significant word in the verse- WITH. It doesn't seem very important at first, but let's look at it differently for a second. What if instead of the angel saying the word "with", he said "for"? That changes the whole verse. Now we all know that nothing is impossible for God. He created the heavens and the earth, He can do anything He wants to. See how different that is? But instead the angel said, "For nothing is impossible WITH God." To me, that makes all the difference in the world. The angel is telling Mary this because she couldn't believe that she (as a virgin) was going to have a baby, and that her sister, Elizabeth, who was barren, was six months pregnant.

     To me, the word with is saying that with the help of God, anything is possible. BUT without Him, nothing is possible. Think about a tree. A tree can't survive without water. It sucks up water from the ground at distributes it to the whole tree. Now think about gravity. How in the world just the tree take the water UP the tree, defying gravity, to distribute it to the whole tree? Nothing is impossible WITH God. The same goes with our blood flow. It defies gravity to come from the lowest point in our body, back up to our heart. There is another example that my friend, Will Lott, told me about. Let's just say, Will isn't a math genius. Well, he decided to take calculus this year. Will Lott+Calculus= not good. Will didn't like calculus very much. He found it difficult and frustrating. Well since yesterday was his final exam in that class, he was just hoping that he would pass. Well he got home and his dad said, "Son, it is by the grace of God that you ended up passing calculus." I just thought that was pretty funny, but it is a good example. I look at Will as a very good, Christian man, and with God he passed calculus when all the odds seemed to be against him.

Like I said in my other post about this verse, WITH God, anything is possible but we have to be WITH Him.