Impossible Situations VS The Omnipotent God

Can you predict how you are going to do in the Impossible Situation in which you find yourself? Yes. How? By discovering whether you are an expert on Impossible Situations or an expert on the Omnipotent God (a theologian!). When you can articulate in great detail and with passion the impossible situation you face but you cannot artitulate the biblical revelation of the Omnipotent God and His Glorious Son then you are in trouble. The solution is not to change the situation but to change your area of expertise! You must become an expert in God’s revelation of Himself. The God who has revealed Himself in His Son and in His Word must become hidden in your heart and thus fill your horizon to the point that He is the One you feel compelled to talk about as you fight the good fight. If you have read the eye-witness accounts of the martyrs who were burned at the stake you were probably stunned most of all by their insistence to talk about Jesus rather than the horrible treatment they were receiving at the hands of their persecutors - evan as they were burning! Are you aware of what God is teaching you about Himself in “The Impossible Situation” you find yourself in or are you too busy expressing how very difficult it is for you to go through it? Consider Job. At first we see him declaring the glory of God in the beginning of His trial,

Job said, “ Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” Job 1:21

But then, in response to those who are telling him he is probably just getting what he deserved from God, he shifts his vision from the Omnipotent God to his own righteousness and he becomes an expert on His Impossible Situation. He begins to ably articulate how unfairly he is being treated. Ultimately this will end in his accusing God for allowing such a thing to befall him.

But then God shows up and his Impossible Situation no longer fills his horizon. Now the Glorious God in whose presence he stands (and falls before) is all he can see.

Then Job answered the LORD and said, “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth. “Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; Even twice, and I will add nothing more.” Job 40:3-5

Now Job is no longer an expert on Impossible Situations. Now his knowledge of God through revelation fills his horizon and controls his heart. In the end the word of God changed his area of expertise. He is now the kind of theologian God wants all His children to become. His knowledge of God has matured by embracing God's revelation in the midst of tribulation.