One of my favorite sayings is "The person who says it can't be done is often nudged out of the way by the person who is doing it!" It can't be done! I have heard that phrase over and over for better than 30 years! Sometimes it is about the easiest of things to do! Sometimes it is about the absolutely HUGE idea or vision!
People are funny! I have seen huge goals set before people at times - and the people who thought it couldn't be done worked hard to make sure it wasn't done! Then they sat back and said, "See, I told you it couldn't be done!" We call that "self-fulfilling prophecy!"
When that sort of things happens, it demoralizes the people who were attempting something great that they believed God had set before them!
Why do some people react so violently against faith living? Why do some people go out of their way to "gum up the works" when others are trying to follow God obediently in whatever He is doing?
This Sunday I am preaching on "What Can it Accomplish?" (we are in a series so our people will know that "it" is the stuff with which God has blessed us!) I am preaching from John 6 and the feeding of the five thousand. One of my favorite lines in the story is when they discovered that all they had to feed the crowd was the 5 little loaves and 2 fishes of a boy! Here is the line - "What is so little among so many?" OR - to put it another way - "It can't be done!"
Move over - Jesus does it! And then we say, "Yeah, but it was JESUS who did it!" - as if that means we could not! Read the passage! You will find out that Jesus was presenting them a test! He already knew what He would do!
I believe that almost every day Jesus presents us with a test - and He already knows what He will do!
I think that my favorite saying can be updated a bit! "Those who say it can't be done need to watch out for the one through whom God is doing it!"
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