Right now a friend of mine, Joelle is battling stage 4 breast cancer. Also, the son of my head pastor is battling an aggressive form of cancer, which had returned after he was listed as in remission. Yesterday, not necessarily because of the cancer walk, the disease was highlighted as Joelle was rushed to the emergency room, while visiting her family in Annapolis because she was having a hard time breathing. The doctors gave her mere hours. I’m giving you fragments because, unfortunately, that’s all I know. Thankfully she was able to get to the hospital in time and was able to sleep peacefully for the first time in days.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. – 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
There are a lot of folks, doctors mainly, that have said to both of these people that the reversal of their illnesses are impossible, however I think the definition of “impossible” is subjective. It’s based on the experiences and the knowledge/understanding of the person making the observation. What is considered impossible is only definable based on what you understand. It’s a hard and fast opinion on what they believe is absolute.
So what if you were God? For those that don’t believe, or understand the concept; for you “Matrix” fans out there, think of him as The Architect, or for you gamers, the Game Designer. If you were the game designer, you make up the rules, so nothing is impossible. In a way, the reason we create is a mirror of our creator. The reason we destroy is a reflection of the destruction that was done within us (sin), and the reason we create is also a reflection of the creation that was done within us (grace/love). As children we mimic our parents and those around us whether in language or actions, growing up partially through nurture, but also through nature, since we were created in the image of the almighty.
So what if we abandon negatively associated situations that we’ve associated to the word “impossible”? What if we accept not knowing the “how” and open ourselves up to possibility? What if we change “im-possible” into “in possible” as in “existing in the possibility”? What then? Being accepting of God does not mean that the miracle is going to be enacted mysteriously out of the blue. It may be birthed from a doctor that discovers the ideal way of eradicating the specific form of cancer that these two people have, or it may be waking up one morning and being told by the doctors that the cancer cells are shrinking, with or without treatment.
For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
-2 Corinthians 8:12 (NIV)
Although this is word is rooted based on what one physically has, I think it has as much to do with what one emotionally has as well. Having and not having doesn’t always have to be associated with something physical, but also to what is intangible. In respect to this post, if you have faith, it’s better than not having any faith, because having means possibility, not having means impossibility, or the brick wall.
We aren’t lying to ourselves when we are open ourselves to the realms of possibly. We are just not short changing ourselves, that we choose to believe there is a greater force our there, and that this greater force:
#1. knows what’s best
and
#2. knows far more of the situation than we can ever understand.
I play the options. I believe in God, because I am wise enough to understand that I do not know or understand everything. I will continue to give thanks for the miracle that will happen in these people’s lives, because the request has gone out, and like David (2 Samuel 12:16-23), if the situation does not produce my desired result, I will be grateful that these beautiful people are no longer in pain.
Nothing is impossible, only what you believe as “in possible”.