In Matthew 19:26, Jesus looks into the eyes of men who have just realized how helpless they really are. He does not soften the truth about human limits—especially when it comes to salvation and surrender—but He also refuses to leave them in despair. He points them away from their own ability and toward the God for whom every barrier, every impossibility, and every hardened heart is still within reach.

The God Who Specializes in Impossible Things

The disciples had just heard how hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom, and it shook them. If even the “successful” and “together” people can’t get in on their own, who can? Into that anxiety Jesus speaks this anchor: “But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” (Matthew 19:26). He doesn’t promise that everything we dream up will happen; He declares that nothing God purposes to do is blocked by human inability. Our limits are real—but they are not ultimate.

Scripture keeps repeating this theme like a drumbeat. The angel told Mary, “For nothing will be impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37). Jeremiah prayed, “Ah, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!” (Jeremiah 32:17). When we stare at our sin, our broken relationships, our culture, or our own hearts and say, “There’s no way,” heaven answers, “Not for Me.” The question is not, “Is this possible?” but, “What has God said, and will I trust Him?”

When My Weakness Meets His Power

The hardest “impossible” is not outside us; it’s inside. It is impossible for us to change our own hearts, to save ourselves, or to make ourselves love God. Jesus’ words in Matthew 19:26 are first about salvation. No one is too far gone, too entangled in sin, or too proud for God to rescue. That includes you. That includes the person you quietly assume will never bow to Christ. God does the heart surgery we cannot even begin. “For apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5).

This truth does not crush us; it frees us. We are not asked to manufacture spiritual life—we are called to abide, trust, and obey. God delights to pour His strength into confessed weakness. Paul testified, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13). That does not mean a life without limits, but a life where every limit becomes an invitation to lean on a power that is not our own.

Stepping into “Impossible” Obedience

If God really can do what we cannot, then obedience stops being a negotiation and becomes a faith-filled yes. Forgiving someone who deeply hurt you feels impossible until you remember that the same God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. Breaking free from a cherished sin feels impossible until you realize you are not fighting it alone. Sharing the gospel in an increasingly hostile world feels impossible until you remember the Spirit is the One who convicts and saves. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5–6).

So today, identify one area where you’ve quietly labeled God’s will “impossible.” Maybe it’s a person you’ve stopped praying for, a sin you’ve stopped resisting, a calling you’ve stopped considering. Bring it honestly to the Lord and name it: “With me, this is impossible.” Then, by faith, finish the sentence the way Jesus did: “but with God all things are possible.” Let that truth move you to take the next step of obedience, even if it still feels bigger than you.

Lord, thank You that nothing is too hard for You. Today, help me act on Your power instead of my fear and take the next step of obedience You are calling me to take.

There has probably never been another time in the history of the world when so many people knew so much about religious happenings as they do today. The newspapers are eager to print religious news; the secular news magazines devote several pages of each issue to the doings of the church and the synagogue; a number of press associations gather church news and make it available to the religious journals at a small cost. Even the hiring of professional publicity men to plug one or another preacher or religious movement is no longer uncommon; the mail is stuffed with circulars and "releases," while radio and television join to tell the listening public what religious people are doing throughout the world.

Greater publicity for religion may be well and I have no fault to find with it. Surely religion should be the most newsworthy thing on earth, and there may be some small encouragement in the thought that vast numbers of persons want to read about it. What disturbs me is that, amidst all the religious hubbub, hardly a voice is raised to tell us what God thinks about the whole thing.

Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti to discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the first place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of honor?

Not the fact that the churches are unusually active these days, not what religious people are doing, should engage our attention, but why these things are so. . . .

He brought me to the banqueting-house, and His banner over me was love. - Song of Solomon 2:4

The entrance of Jesus Christ into the opened heart is no mere metaphor, and it is not beweakened down to the presence in the spirit of the influence of His truth, or anything of that sort. There is a deep and substantial reality in the presence within a believing heart of Jesus Christ Himself. It is the central gift and promise of the Gospel, " that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith." The old question that tortured men in early days, "Will God in very deed dwell with men upon the earth?" is answered now; and we have not only a Christ that was once incarnated in the son of a virgin to look back upon, but we have a Christ who dwells in our human spirits, if we open them by faith for His entrance. He Himself is the greatest of His gifts, and where He comes there spring, at the touch of His foot, all gracious, noble, and good things in the human heart. He never comes empty-handed, but when He enters in He endows the soul with untold riches.

We have also Christ’s presence as a Guest. How wonderful that is! "I will come in and sup with him." All sweet and familiar intercourse may be ours. It is even so that He, the glorious Lord, whose majesty, as revealed to John, prostrated even the disciple, who had leaned on His bosom at supper, as one dead, will bring all these splendours into this poor heart! He will come, and that as our Guest. What great and wonderful things are contained in that assurance! Can we present anything to Him that He can partake of? Yes! We may give Him our service, and He will take that; we may give Him our love, and He will regard it as an odour of a sweet smell, and as dainty and delightsome food.

Christ comes to us not only as a Guest, but also as Host: - " I will sup with him and he with Me. As when they asked Him to the rustic wedding at Cana of Galilee, He came as the Guest, but presently He turned the water of earthly felicity into the wine of heavenly gladness, and was Himself the Provider of the feast. As upon that night at Emmaus, when the two wearied men asked the wearied Companion of their journey to come in and stay with them at their humble meal, and He took His place at the table as an invited Guest, but in a moment assumed the role of the Master of the house, and broke the bread and blessed it, so making their gift to Him into His to them. So when He comes into your heart, and you offer Him your poor fare, your loyalty and your love and your faith and your service, He gives you the powers and the resources to love and serve Him; and still more, He gives you Himself, the Bread of God that came down from heaven, that your soul may feed upon that, and be satisfied and glad. As when some great prince offers to honour a poor subject with his presence, and let him provide some insignificant portion of the entertainment, whilst all the substantial and costly parts of it come in the retinue of the monarch, from the palace.