I must realize, Lord, that discipleship for You is not only doing what I can, but what I cannot. When Jesus said to the paralyzed man at Bethesda, “Arise, take up your pallet, and walk” (John 5:8), He was asking the impossible, humanly speaking. If my Christian life is to be measured by what I can do, I am left with a purely human religion. If, on the other hand, Jesus Christ is who He says He is, then He will often command me to do the impossible for His sake as well as mine.
It is amazing, Lord, how I believe strongly in a supernatural God, and yet just as strongly try to live a natural life. You commanded Abraham to offer Isaac on Moriah, a thing he could not do because it violated Your promise to him (Genesis 22). Yet Abraham believed that what could not be done also could be done, even if it took a miracle to do it. Abraham’s expectancy was in a miracle-working God. This is where I so often fail. I believe in a miracle-working God in the Bible. but for me? I believe that God works miracles in Argentina, but it is hard to believe He works them in my own home.
Discipleship, if it means anything, means something just beyond my reach. If it is simply my idea, my talent, my energy, and my versatility. then I can quietly dismiss Jesus Christ and go on my way without Him. So God forces me to do the impossible, not once but often, for in no other way is He ever going to express His Son in me. Soon now I may hear Him say, “Get up, take your bed, and walk!” Or, “Get to Moriah and offer your Isaac.” When I hear those words I will know a miracle is in the making, for I could not obey them apart from Him who is “able to do exceeding abundantly” above all I could ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).
“And they were utterly astonished, saying, ‘He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak’” (Mark 7:37).
Daily with the King 