Experts can be wrong! My dear departed preacher friend, Dr. Tom Malone, used to say, “An expert is any little squirt away from home.” The scientists and medical doctors of Abraham’s day would have told him there was no hope for him at the age of ninety-nine, and Sarah, his wife, at eighty-nine, to have a child. And the seasoned mariners, who had been in more than one life-threatening storm revealed to Paul and his evangelistic team that all hope was gone that they might be saved from the terrible tempest that was upon them.
But in the above mentioned, both of these good and godly men knew, “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” What did Abraham do when he heard the expert’s advice? The Scriptures tell us: “Who against hope, believed in hope.” And what of Paul? He stood on deck of the ship and in the midst of the raging waves, the hurricane force winds, and the torrential rains, told these professional seamen, who had given up all hope to “...be of good cheer, I believe God...” He was still hopeful in a seemingly hopeless situation. John Bunyan said, “Hope is never ill when faith is well.”
There are no limits to a limitless God! The world’s hope has a limitation point, when hope ceases to be. But to hope in God has unlimited, unending possibilities. One might even say He does His best work when conditions are impossible.
I think a Scripture found in Romans 15:13 would be appropriate for all who feel themselves to be in a hopeless condition: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”
“WHEN GOD IS GETTING READY TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, HE TAKES A MAN OR WOMAN IN AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION, AND CRUSHES THEM!”
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