The angel’s words to Mary came in the middle of something that made no sense from a human perspective: a virgin promised a Child, a throne, and a never–ending kingdom. Into her “How can this be?” came a simple declaration that with God, the category of “impossible” does not carry the final word. Today, that same truth presses into our own tangled situations, stubborn sins, and heavy fears, inviting us to see our lives through the lens of what God can do, not just what we can do.

God’s Promise Is Bigger Than Our Limits

When Gabriel spoke to Mary, he wasn’t asking her to muster up superhuman strength; he was announcing what God had already decided to do. The message was clear: “For nothing will be impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37). Mary’s womb was humanly unable to do what God was promising—but God never asked her body for permission. He spoke, and His word created a new reality, just as it did in the very beginning when He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

This is the heartbeat of biblical faith: we are not the main actors, God is. Our limitations are real, but they are not ultimate. When God purposes to bring forth life, redemption, and new beginnings, no barrier—biological, emotional, spiritual, or circumstantial—can finally stand in His way. Where you see a locked door, God sees a stage for His glory. The same God who overshadowed Mary by His Spirit is able to overshadow your impossibilities with His power.

From Questioning to Surrendered Trust

Mary did ask a question: “How can this be…?” Her curiosity and confusion were honest, but she did not stay stuck there. She moved from question to surrender: “Let it be to me according to your word.” Faith is not pretending we understand everything; faith is deciding who gets the final say—our analysis or God’s promise. The Lord has always asked His people to trust Him at the edge of what makes sense. He says, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?” (Jeremiah 32:27).

Your “How can this be?” might sound like: How can this marriage be healed? How can this prodigal come home? How can this addiction be broken? God does not belittle those questions, but He does invite you to bring them under His authority. Faith says, “Lord, I don’t see how, but I choose to stand where You stand.” Mary’s story assures us that the Lord delights to meet surrendered hearts with His supernatural work. Our part is not to engineer the miracle, but to yield to the One who works it.

Living Today Like Nothing Is Impossible

If Jesus Himself says, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26), then that truth must reshape the way we face today. We do not wake up as spiritual orphans trying to survive; we wake up as children of the God who raises the dead, parts seas, opens wombs, softens hard hearts, and saves to the uttermost. The cross looked like the greatest impossibility—sin forgiven, death defeated, Satan crushed—yet God accomplished all of it through the death and resurrection of His Son. Scripture reminds us that since the Father did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, we can be sure He will also give us everything we truly need (see Romans 8:32).

Living like nothing is impossible with God does not mean we get everything we imagine; it means we trust that God will do everything He has promised, in His way and time. It means we pray big, repent deeply, love sacrificially, and obey even when we can’t see the outcome. It means that when fear whispers, “This will never change,” we answer, “Maybe not in my strength—but I am not relying on my strength.” Today, name one area that feels impossible and consciously place it under Luke 1:37. Ask God to write His story there, even if it surprises you.

Lord, thank You that nothing is impossible with You. Help me surrender my “How can this be?” and obey You today in faith; show me one concrete step to take with You instead of shrinking back in fear.

The children of the world are sometimes wiser than the children of light. . . . We have been offered the face of God and the glory of Christ. We have been offered holiness and righteousness and indwelling by the Spirit. We can have our prayers answered and have hell fear us because we have a hold on God who invites us to draw on His omnipotence. We are offered all this, and yet we sit and play second violin without ambition. Israel was once in that condition, and an old prophet with shining eyes came to them and said, "Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, . . You put off the evil day and bring near a reign of terror. You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves. You strum away onyour harps like David and improvise onmusical instruments. You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile." (Amos 6:1-7). Israel was in a rut, and they did not want anybody disturbing their calm. They liked music and food and beds of ivory, and they anointed themselves with ointment. They had everything that we call sumptuous living. But they were not grieved at the affliction of Israel. They didn't care. Let us not rest upon beds of ivory. By the grace of God let us begin to grieve a bit for the affliction of Joseph and be anxious and bothered in the Holy Spirit for the state the church is in.

They that plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. - Job 4:8

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity. - Proverbs 22:8

It is a solemn thought that the ultimate perfect possession of and by God is evolved from a germ which must be planted now if it is to flourish there. " The child is father of the man." Every present is the result of all the past; every future will be the result of the past and the present. Everybody admits that about this life, but there are some of us that seem to forget it with regard to another world. We know too little of the effect that is produced upon men by the change of death to dogmatise; but one may be quite sure that the law of continuity will go on into the other world. Or, to put it into plainer English, a man on the other side of the grave will be the same as he was on this side. The line will run straight on; it may be slightly refracted by passing from an atmosphere of one density to another of a different, but it will be very slightly. The main direction will be the same.

What is there in death that can change a man’s will? I can fancy death making an idiot wise, because idiocy comes from physical causes. I can fancy death giving people altogether different notions of the folly of sin; but I do not know anything in the physical fact of death, or in the accompanying alterations that it produces upon spiritual consciousness, in so far as they are known to us, that can alter the dominant bias and set of a man’s nature. It seems to me more likely that it will intensify that dominant bias, whatever it is; that it will make good men better and bad men worse when the limitations of incomplete organs arc gone. At all events, do not you run risks with such a very shaky hypothesis as that: but remember that what a man sows he shall reap; that the present is the parent of the future, and that unless we have the earnest of inheritance here, and pass into the other world bearing that earnest in our hands, there seems little reason why we should expect that, when we stand before Him empty-handed, we can claim a portion therein.

I was passing a little town garden a day or two ago, and the man had got a young weeping willow that he had put in the plot in front of his door, and he had bent down its branches and put them round the hoop of an old wine-cask to teach them to droop. And after a bit, when they have been set, he will take away the hoop, but the branches will never spring upwards, though it be gone, wherever you transplant the tree. Are you doing that with your souls? If you give them the downward set, they will keep it, though the earth to which you have fastened them be burnt up with fervent heat, and the soul be transplanted into another region.

If you have life, you will grow. If there be any real possession of the inheritance, it will be like the rolling fences that they used to have in certain parts of the country, where a squatter settled himself down upon a bit of royal forest, and had a hedge that could be moved outwards and shifted on by degrees; and from having begun with a little bit big enough for a cabbage garden, ended with a piece big enough for a farm. And that is what we are always to do, to be always acquiring, "adding field to field " in the great inheritance that is ours.