What is impossible for God?
/I awakened this morning to a winter wonderland... and sighed. So done with winter. But that sigh was not heavy because I knew the cold would pass soon. Spring will not be stopped.
As I drove along the roads, I saw the blossomed branches in every direction shaking off the snow. The sun broke through the gray clouds and the melting snow fell like God’s grace...
On the car. On the road. On my soul.
Then I encountered the today’s shocking first Mass reading...
“Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.
Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the Church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment.”
And I was filled with joy.
I didn’t feel joy over the persecution and real suffering, but because I know Saul... and I know what came after the brief winter of his hatred for Christ.
What is impossible for God?
Nothing is impossible for God.
Saul could not destroy the Church. And the result of the martyrdom of Stephen was a great watering of faith, fervor, and miracles.
God did not stop the death of Stephen. But he raised him up. He showered the Church with His Spirit. And...
He turned Saul’s murderous heart into Paul’s heart of a martyr.
What is impossible for God?
Nothing is impossible for God.
“Behold, I am making all things new.” Rev. 21:5
He does not force us to accept Him and to be filled with the Holy Spirit; nor to accept suffering and death with peace and trust...
But He makes it possible.
Thanks be to God ❤️