What is your “Impossible”?
Good morning and Hallelujah my friends! It is a beautiful day that the Lord has awakened you to enjoy. Yes…enjoy and rejoice!
What do you want to do today? What or who do you want to see today? What change are YOU willing to make today? Can I suggest that the first thing you do is forget the word “can’t” or “won’t” or any negative word that keeps you from having a very blessed and beautiful day.
Ok, I understand you may have lost a love one due to illness and death or relationship due to divorce. I understand you may be dealing with a diagnosis that was not favorable. Or you are dealing with pain physically, emotionally, or even spiritually, but have you even thought to begin your day simply singing and praising God?
I am constantly reminded of Joni Eareckson Tada who has been a quadriplegic for fifty plus years. She wanted to die after her diving accident at the age of seventeen, but a friend introduced her to Jesus. Don’t get me wrong. She was very angry with God. ‘What kind of a God who supposably “loves” would allow such a horrific alteration to a young promising diver’s life?’
She came to realize that she had made the choice to dive into that bay without the knowledge of the depth of water. After some time of anger and grieving she surrendered to the fact this was her new life, a quadriplegic, so how was she going to live it. At the same time of surrendering to accepting the situation she surrendered to a helpmate, Jesus!
She had to look at the “impossibles” in her life with the attitude of being an overcomer. Ok, she may not be able to dive into the water anymore, but she could dive into life with a new and positive attitude.
Sure she had and has dreams just like the rest of us and her dreams are challenged with greater obstacles than most of us. Marriage was one of those big dreams most young girls desire. Would she ever have that love of passion she dreamt of in her young adult life? Who could possibly choose to be her partner in life with the challenges of her physical handicaps?
At a local church service Joni was sitting behind Ken Tada “praying through the back of my head,” Ken says. Circumstances kept bringing them together and they married July 3, 1980. They have been married come this July thirty-eight years. What has been their greatest challenge in marriage? Communication!!! Not the physical handicap or all the daily challenges they deal with that most people do not deal with, but the everyday every relationship or people challenge of communication!
This is the greatest challenge they share in their book “Joni and Ken: An Untold Love Story.” Joni said in an interview, “It is a hard world. There are so many people struggling emotionally, a lot of suffering and marriage only magnifies how hard it is to deal with suffering.” She said regarding her and Ken’s marriage, “If you take rose petals that have fallen off the flower and crush them in your hand then smell the fragrance still in those petals, marriage is like that; the crushing that exudes a fragrance that hopefully is pleasing to God.” They both said people need to pray for one another, “Jesus, we need Your grace just one day at a time.”
Can you lean into and on Jesus today? God can use us no matter what our handicap. God also will bless us beyond what we may be able to believe, but we first must be willing to surrender the obstacle in our life to Him and surrender our life to Him. Start today with a new outlook on life. Start by looking to the problem solver rather than the problem. When you begin to look and live a life in a positive manner, everything around you will begin to change.
Take a step of faith and call upon Jesus today!
Father, thank You for my friends, my brothers and sisters as You increase my family. I pray Your grace on us all as we take one day at a time, one moment at a time, to surrender our physical pain and our emotional pain to You. Take our life and let it be consecrated Lord to Thee! Save us from the world of darkness and take us into Your world of Light and Life in Jesus’ name I pray Amen!