"The Impossible Made Possible"

Repeated sin hardens the heart! In fact, one can get to a point they become callous (Eph. 4:19) and nothing can penetrate the heart. Someone once said that the lives of many are like concrete: "thoroughly mixed up and permanently set." The love of sin has drastic results in the lives of people. People live miserable, mixed up lives but their heart is so set, they have no desire to change.

Sometimes it seems all the preaching/teaching in the world does little good. Jeremiah wept over the people of God and it seemed to him that they would never change. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" (Jer. 13:23) That's how Jeremiah regarded the people...impossible for them to change. Today, our modern psychologists tell people to just accept themselves as they are, to love themselves. That is what helps the hardening process. People try to reform their own lives through different step programs or self help classes but those things can never break you free of the sin that entangles the lives of people. People can break bad habits, reshape their personalities and change their character to a point but sin still controls. People cannot forgive themselves and find the life of God on their own no more than a leopard can change his spots.

God makes the impossible possible! Where man cannot save themselves, forgive themselves and transform their lives, God can. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come." (II Cor. 5:17) In Christ Jesus is where the old passes away and one enters into the power of freedom of God.

When God forgives, He forgives permanently. Where Christ dwells, the power to change and overcome begins to happen (Eph. 3:15-19). The good news from God exposes our failures but we do not have to remain a failure. Until we surrender our lives into the hand of the living God, we will have little desire to change and the changes we make will be nothing more than what any doomed person can make. Our lives can change, but only if we want to change by coming to the Christ of the cross. There we will find that the impossible is made possible!