Leviticus 24:1-25:46
Mark 10:13-31
Psalm 44:9-26
Proverbs 10:20-21
Leviticus 25:20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.
When God tells us to do something even if it seems impossible to survive it we are to trust Him. If we do then we will be blessed with all that we need to be able to obey in abundance. I would love to see more churches looking to see what God says and then does it even if it doesn't make sense. From the individual members of the church to the leadership of and individual church to the corporate church of all believers. God knew that the question of, What will we eat, would be an excuse that they would want to use for not obeying but He promised them to provide. Whatever reasons we may have to not obey, be it finances, what a family member or friend might think or say, what someone in the church might think and or say, what the world might think, say or do can all be excuses to not do something that God has commanded. But God has promised many times to bless those who obey His commands. Even when it seems impossible. Sometimes you just have to trust and jump in and follow Him.
Mark 10:27 Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”
Jesus assures the disciples that nothing is impossible with God and He also has told Him that He is God. Jesus God of the impossible.
Mark 10:29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, 30 will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.
Sometimes what we are called to do not only seems impossible it can be scary and at times lonely. We are called to give up on the love of the things of this world. Some of those things we may think are important and valuable to us can stop us from following Jesus wholeheartedly. Just as the rich man was unable to give up all that He had. But if we are willing to go through life committed to Jesus and hold all that we have with open hands willing to lose family, friends, possessions, positions, and power we can trust that He can multiply all that we have lost in eternity. Because nothing is impossible with the God of the impossible.
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