When You Think All Hope is Gone!

Are you down and out? Discouraged? Need the Impossible to be possible? Today I read in my devotional that God is the God of Impossibilities. In Jeremiah 32:27 Lord said: “I am the Lord, the God of every person on the earth. Nothing is impossible for me.” In John chapter five there is a perfect example of God doing something that man would think is impossible. There is man had been lame for 38 years. He cannot walk and as child he never ran or jumped around like the other children. He never has been able to get into the waters that could heal him. He sounds very discourage in verse 7. "I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me." (NLT) He has lost hope! He is down and out. He just lays there day in and day out thinking, “Look at the line of those trying to get into the water, it is so long, everyone is going to get in before I do.” Can you imagine the despair that this man has had in his life? Then Jesus comes along and does the impossible! He heals the man right there! Jesus gave him hope! Jesus told him to stand up and walk! When Jesus spoke those words, the man was healed. Jesus doesn’t want us to be discouraged or live a life of hopelessness. I know too many people today live in this state. They look at their circumstance and see no hope of getting out. However, they are not looking in the right place. The right place is in Jesus Christ! Hebrews 12:2 says, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.” (NIV) Our focus needs to be on Jesus Christ. It is in Him that we find hope during the hopeless times! He is the one who encourages those who are discouraged! He is the one who makes the impossible possible! In Matthew 19:26 “Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For people this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.’” (NCV) Just remember hard times will come and go, but Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is the one who can and will bring stability in your life. When you come to those down and out times, times when you don’t see hope, when you think things are impossible, run to Jesus! Lay everything at His feet (1Peter 5:7) and let Him take care of you! When you are In His Grip, He is in control!