Today’s Devotional: “Our Inabilities Are God’s Possibilities”

When God made His promise to Abraham, “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations” (Genesis 17:5), Abraham still didn’t have the son God had promised through Sarah. He was ninety-nine years old, and Sarah was about ninety, both well past their childbearing years.

But what is impossible for us is possible with God. This was the Apostle Paul’s point as he continued his argument for faith alone, drawing on Abraham’s life.

“As it is written: ‘I have made you a father of many nations.’ He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.” (Romans 4:17)

Abraham’s faith was in God alone. Abraham’s faith was in the all-powerful God who can breathe life where none exists. Abraham believed that God could give life, make alive, vitalize, revive, and resurrect the dead. His faith was in the Lord, who can create something from nothing.

But Abraham’s faith was not only in the promises but also in the One who can keep His promises.

God is not hindered by what seems impossible or dead to us. God is not limited by our limitations or our inability. Only He can fulfill what God has promised, and He will do so because He is God.

When Mary asked how she could give birth without ever having had sex with a man, the angel replied, “Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37)

So, let’s put our faith in God rather than in what circumstances may dictate or in what we think we can do, because our limitations are God’s possibilities, and God is a promise-keeping God even when those promises seem impossible.

This was Paul’s main argument, expressed in “I can do all this through him who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13).