What things are impossible for men?
Today, we have scientists who preach to us that they understand the very moment of creation, although they deny that "creation" exists, that we're all just a strange and wonderful "accident".
We have scholars who preach that we are descended from single cell living entities that are billions of years old, and yet they fail to be able to explain the path to the complexity that is human life, and more importantly, they deny the gifting to this one particular life form of a soul - that which causes humanity to truly share in the image of God.
We have genetic experts who claim to know how to modify plant life so that it will survive in any climate. We have nations that produce far in excess of their own needs in terms of food crops. And yet the world remains held in the grasp of famine.
We have politicians and ambassadors who know that war and conflict solve no problem, and yet today there are 56 countries currently involved in wars or skirmishes with over 200 countries or insurgent groups.
We have doctors who tells us that they can heal the most complex diseases, and we are indeed blessed to have such magnificent talents in the world. But these same doctors can't cure the common cold, and cancer still runs rampant in our world, as does AIDS, and also many other fatal diseases.
We have bankers that preach to us how we need to provide for our security by entering various markets, telling us that we're too inept to know how best to manage our own God-given resources, and that we need to trust them to do this for us, and yet it is these same people who have been bailed out by a government on the verge of failing itself.
What things are impossible for men?
It is impossible for us to live without sin. And yet one Man managed to do this.
It is impossible for us to achieve salvation based on our own merits.
It is impossible for us to love others to the depth that our Creator loves us.
It is impossible for us to live and maintain any semblance of true joy in our lives without having the Cross, the Tomb, and the Resurrection as our focal points.
It is impossible to offer sufficient thanks to God for the blessings we have received from Him.
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