Daily Verse: John 6:7

Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"

The text above comes from the time when Christ fed 5,000people with only 5 loaves of bread and two small fish. From Philips response above, the task of feeding the thousands that gathered around Christ seemed completely impossible, illogical, and perhaps even foolish even to consider. Yet that is exactly what Christ did. He took those few loaves of bread and a couple fish, gave thanks to God, fed everyone, and in the end, gathered up 12 baskets of leftovers. We tend to look at things in our own lives through the same lens that Philip was looking through…seeing things as impossible, irrational, or absurd…simply because they don’t necessarily make sense to us. Even though we have numerous examples of incredible works at the hands of God, in our minds we still manage to place worldly logic around God’s infinite abilities…We still somehow manage to “box-in” what God can do based on what makes sense in our world. But the great thing about God is that he is not bound by what makes sense in our world…he is not bound by scientific equations or logical reasoning. If he wants, he can take an impractical amount of food and feed an impossible number of people…if he wants, he can take a person riddled with cancer and disease, and heal them completely…if he wants, he can take a relationship brutally abused with infidelity and deceit, and restore it to new…if he wants, he can take a person that has died and restore them to life. With God, there is not one thing that is impossible…there is not one thing that he cannot create, change, develop, or restore. As we enter this new year, may we fully embrace the incredible ability of our God, so that when we bow our heads to pray, there may not be even the slightest bit of doubt that our God can provide exactly what we need…even if it seems impossible to us. To God be the glory!