Agreeing with and trusting God...do you?

For nothing is impossible with God (Lk 1:37). When was the last time you thought about this verse? It's where the angel Gabriel tells Mary, a virgin, that she's highly favored by God and that she will be with child and give birth to a son that she will name Jesus...and that His Kingdom will never end. Besides Mary being a virgin, she possessed no prior skills or training to be the candidate for the most important job in the world-but it was her response that qualified her...she agreed with what God said then completely trusted Him. That's all God needs from us to fulfill His plans through us...agreement and trust-the two qualifiers to be used by God. Can you imagine if Mary would have reasoned her ability to carry out the request God asked of her? How she would convince Joseph to believe her...."Joseph I know it's hard to believe, but God put the seed of Jesus in me-I'm carrying the Messiah. I promise you Joseph, I have not been with another man." Or what if she looked ahead and thought, "how will I be able to parent and protect Jesus Christ-I don't have the ability to parent Jesus." What are people going to say about me....will they think I've lost my mind?" There are a million more reasoning outcomes, but the point is when God puts a request on our heart, He's already done all the planning-the burden isn't on us to figure it out. Our part is to agree and trust. So what impossible are you facing? Are you trying to reason all the probable outcomes in your mind-so you can see how you will best carry out what God asks of you? Listen closely, there's a fine line between using the mind God gives us for His glory...and using our mind to figure out how we can glorify God. Only when we agree with His request in our mind and submit it to His Spirit, then move forward with a confident expectation in His ability-trusting Him to carry out through us what He's asked of us; then He will give us His peace and His confidence to carry out His plan through us. The peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard our hearts and our minds (Phil 4:7). Trying to be prepared enough or reason out all the potential outcomes will make us lose our mind-really it will, but trusting God keeps our mind in peace. Our part is to move ahead with a sincere heart seeking Jesus in all we do, giving Him our best, but not getting bogged down in the fear of what if we mess up or miss Him; we will mess up, but God has our messes covered when we love Him with all our of heart, with all our soul and with all of our strength and with all your mind (Lk 10:27). Will you agree and trust God today? Nothing is impossible for Him! 7/9/13CIFL-LMM