I got the idea for this blog reading from Calvin Miller’s excellent Advent devotional called The Christ of Christmas. I uber-highly recommend it!

To me, the whole Christmas story is a string of glorious impossibilities. That God the Infinite One should become an embryo in the womb of a 13-year old virgin should be an impossibility, but God made it a reality. And a glorious one at that!

That His salvation plan should start in backwoods Bethlehem in a filthy barn with a feeding trough with outcasts to announce His arrival boggles my mind. It is an impossibility that the Hope of the world could come from that. But it did!

Mary’s obedience to God’s call would lead literally to the defining moment of history. Since the birth of Jesus, every event in history falls into either B.C. (Before Christ) or A.D. (which is Latin for “In the Year of Our Lord”). A peasant teenager said, “Lord, I am Your servant. May it be to me according to Your word.” The world has never been the same since.

Is there anything in your life that seems impossible? Any dream beyond fulfillment? Any hope completely dashed? Any promise that seems past?

Remember in this Season of the Incarnation that NOTHING is impossible with God. NOTHING!

God takes people who have come to a place of humility and availability and does the impossible in them and through them. The result in every case is always worship.

That God can use me as a Kairos Roots table leader astounds me. That I can write a blog that touches people amazes me. It has to be all God, because I know what deep fears haunt me in the night or what vile thoughts sometimes run through my head or how selfish my ambitions can be.

God delights in turning impossibilities into realities. And God delights in you and me! Let that inspire worship not only for the next 16 days, but for every day from now until God calls you home or Jesus comes back.

Let your life be one huge AMEN to God!