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A Prayer for Trusting God to Do the Impossible

     But he [Jesus] said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” Luke 18:27

     Dear Lord Jesus, you offered these words of hope to disciples trying to picture a camel squeezing through the eye of a needle. You speak the same words to me in light of many situations for which I need to accept my limitations and lay hold of your sufficiency.

     I begin this day remembering that your commitment is to make all things new, not make all new things. There is an enormous difference between the two. Indeed, Jesus, you’ve placed us in a story of restoration, not replacement. You are actively at work in the broken places and among broken people, including me. Through your resurrection, we’ve been given great assurance and hope for a redeemed universe. This is incredibly good news—the best news ever; but it’s not going to happen on our timetable or according to our script.

     This means we getting used to the fact that many things are, and will remain, impossible for us. My best intentions, efforts, and resources are simply not enough. I see this especially in relationships, and with people I care about a lot. This requires a humility and faith the gospel alone can provide. Grant me both, Lord Jesus—bunches of both.

     I cannot change me, so why do I assume the omnipotence to fix others? As much as I long to see friends freed from addictions, marriages brought back from the brink of death; along with stubborn people made gentle and kind, and negative people filled with faith and hope, Jesus, you alone have the power of resurrection.

     Maybe the greater challenge will be for you to make me a patient and caring, persistent and present friend. Please show me the first nose hair of this camel poking through a needle’s eye. Hasten the Day of perfect and perpetual newness in my heart, and in your world. So very Amen I pray, in your merciful and majestic name.

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