“For nothing will be impossible with God.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
Nothing will be impossible with God. Six little words with a big impact. Yet what exactly do they mean?
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Tag: Morning Musings
Morning Musing: Luke 1:30-31
“And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
We often hear Mary’s story here told and think, “Wow, how amazing would it be to have God think so highly of us?” And certainly Mary has occupied a large place in the story of humanity because of what God had planned for her. But before we stop at this thought of how great it would have been to be Mary, let’s back up just a bit. Mary was surely blessed by God, but walking in her shoes would have been a bit more complicated than the neat and tidy version of the story lets on.
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Morning Musing: Luke 1:7
“But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
The story of Jesus as Luke tells it, who carefully investigated the whole thing in order to write an accurate and orderly account (verse 3), doesn’t begin in a place of great joy or excitement. It begins in a place of disappointment and quiet desperation that had lasted for decades. Not quite what you would expect from the story of God’s arrival into the world.
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Morning Musing: 2 Samuel 22:36
“You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
Sometimes when you’re reading through the Scriptures a particular verse catches your eye. Have you had that happen to you before? The reasons it does are manifold, but one of them is that it says something in a way you weren’t expecting. That’s what happened to me with this verse.
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Morning Musing: 2 Samuel 22:25
“And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
What David says right here reflects a pre-Jesus understanding of how God operates toward us that is rooted in the Mosaic Covenant. Under that system, if someone kept the Law or at least had offered the proper sacrifices, they could consider themselves clean before God. And God allowed this to be the case even though they weren’t totally right. Their sins had been covered, but they weren’t forgiven. Once Jesus came, He revealed David’s thinking to be right, but his confidence to be very much wrong.
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