#Impossible

There are some things that seem impossible and there are some things that just are impossible. You may want to stop time because you are enjoying the moment so much. You can capture the moment in a picture, but you cannot capture time. It just keeps moving on. There is no possibility of moving time forward any degree or making it go faster or stopping it. It is an impossibility.

In Hebrews 11, the writer tells us 'that without faith it is impossible to please God'. It cannot be done.  There is no chance in the world of being acceptable to God. The writer goes on to help us understand the issue. He states that first and foremost an individual must believe or have faith that God exists. If one believes that God exists, that in itself must be satisfying to God, but even demons believe that God exists and these entities are in full rebellion against Him and cannot be pleasing to Him.

Faith is a currency, a medium of exchange that God has chosen to be valid in His economy. We use the dollar bill and exchange it for something. We place our currency into the hand of the cashier and in return we get our candy bar. So, it is in the spiritual realm. We place our faith into the hand of God in order to proceed in this transaction and we receive assurance back. That is only the beginning for just as you have a candy bar for eating, you have assurance for seeking Him personally and He is satisfied with you at that point and rewards you by revealing more and more of Himself to you.

There will always be tiny grains of doubt waiting to spring forth in our minds, but there is an answer to that. The story told in Mark 9 of the father who asked Jesus to help his son and when told all things were possible to him who believes, stated back, "I do believe; help my unbelief." encourages us. When we recognize a doubt, a weed in our flower garden, we don't ignore it because it will multiply and our flower garden will become a weed garden. Doubts left to grow bloom into - 'God lied'. A doubt is an opportunity to use the currency of faith and to say to God, "I believe; help my unbelief."