It’s easy to forget just how powerful our God is. There are no limits to what He can do, but we often look at our circumstances as if they’re as hopeless as they would be without Him.
Here’s a word of encouragement to those waiting for God to move in the heart of someone they love.
Whether it’s a friend, a spouse, a parent, a prodigal child, a relative, neighbor or coworker, don’t give up on God. Or them.
No matter how far from God they may appear to be right now.
No matter how impossible it may seem.
Even if they look you in the eye and tell you there’s NO WAY they’ll ever change their mind.
When every sign points towards there being no hope.
Don’t give up on God!
Don’t look at someone in your life and think, “well, there’s no way they’d ever follow God,” or “they’re never gonna change.”
Don’t ever view a situation as beyond hope, or circumstances as beyond repair.
Our God is a God who SPECIALIZES in the impossible.
He loves to do things that blow our minds.
Think about this. Saul of Tarsus was on his way to kill Christians when he, literally, saw the light. He had papers in hand, to extradite Christ followers and bring them back with him to be killed.
Saul was as far from Jesus as he could possibly be. Actively working in direct opposition to everything Jesus had lived for.
But God…
[Read the amazing story of Saul’s conversion in Acts 9:1-19.]
Jesus stopped Saul in his tracks, changed his heart and turned it all around.
If you had asked Saul if he was going to join the apostles and follow Christ that day, he would’ve scoffed. But that’s exactly what happened.
Saul became Paul that day. He went all in with Jesus, planting churches and leading people to Christ everywhere he went. He wrote much of the New Testament–words that encourage, instruct, edify, and evangelize to this day.
Russell Moore put it this way:
“Who knew that God would raise up a C.S. Lewis, a Charles Colson? They were unbelievers who, once saved by the grace of God, were mighty warriors for the faith.
The next Jonathan Edwards might be the man driving in front of you with the Darwin Fish bumper decal. The next Charles Wesley might be a misogynist, profanity-spewing hip-hop artist right now. The next Billy Graham might be passed out drunk in a fraternity house right now.”
Lee Strobel, the Chicago journalist who famously set out to prove Christianity untrue and ended up writing The Case For Christ, one of the seminal books of the faith from the past 50 years, tweeted this earlier this week:
In Ephesians 3:20, it is Paul who reminds us that God is …”able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
So, when things seem impossible, unfixable, or hopeless–don’t forget that GOD CAN. And does…
No one would’ve predicted Saul’s transformation. Nobody woke up that morning with any kind of hope that anything would change in his heart, or in the direction of his life.
But God…
Don’t stop praying.
Don’t stop believing.
It’s never too late.
Nothing is impossible with God.
You can never fall too hard,
So fast, so far
That you can’t get back
When you’re lostWhere you are is never too late,
So bad, so much
That you can’t change
At the foot of the cross
– from Who You Are by Unspoken
Growing In Grace 