Impossible Challenges?
"Have I not commanded you?
Be strong and of good courage; do not be
afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your
God is with you wherever you
go."
Joshua 1: 9
It’s June 1944. General Dwight Eisenhower, commander of Allied
forces, gives you the following instructions: “I need you to assemble
a force to invade Europe, liberate France,
secure defense and liberate
Western Europe, and defeat the Nazi military forces.”
In real time, it took more than a year of planning among more
than a dozen Allied nations to achieve the liberation of Europe.
Some tasks are simply too large for one person to
accomplish.
That must have been how Joshua felt when God told him
(paraphrasing), “Lead the Israelites into Canaan, drive out
the pagan inhabitants, and secure the land as a
homeland
for My people.”
Then God gave Joshua the key to accomplishing his assignment:
“The Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” God promised
Joshua he wouldn't be alone. And that promise applies to us
as
well. We aren't alone when we set out on our impossible tasks
either.
God does not commission us without the promise
of His presence and provision. We only have to
be
“strong and of good courage.”
"Christ wants not nibblers of the possible,
but grabbers of the impossible."
C. T. Studd
