Dear Missionary Lady,
Greetings in the name of the God who can do what absolutely no one else can do!
This week I considered this verse from Micah 4:3. “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
There are world leaders, supported by armies and sometimes by diplomacy, that have helped to bring the end to certain wars. But men always rise up to fight again. New wars arise. World War I was called “the war to end all wars,” yet just twenty-one years later, the world was embroiled in a new war far more devastating than the first. This story has repeated itself on smaller scales over and over again.
The truth is that no human leader will be able to bring a final end to wars and fighting. But God will! When He establishes His peaceful reign, there will never again be war.
That’s not the only thing God can do that no one else can do. God created the heavens and the earth, along with all forms of life. God controls the weather, with the Flood being an extreme example. Modern man is desperate to protect the planet, but God is the one who sustains His creation and holds it together. God has done miraculous works, such as healing hopeless conditions, causing barren women to conceive, and even raising people from the dead.
On the spiritual level, God also does what man can never do. God provides a solution of salvation for hopelessly lost mankind. God transforms lives by making men into new creations with new hearts. God powerful convicts and guides people through what looks like mere printed words on a page, but which in reality is the living Word of God.
When it comes to eternity, God will continue to do what man cannot do. He has prepared an eternal home called heaven. He will execute “space travel” on the most incredible level through the rapture. He will establish an earthly government that controls the entire globe, in which all nations and citizens will be submissive. He will put an end to all evil. He actually will destroy the earth, which in spite of man’s fears, they could never destroy to the extent that God will.
Today we celebrate something else that man could never do. In the full picture, we have a virgin birth with a child whose real Father is God Himself. We have a perfectly sinless life, and we have a substitutionary sacrifice that will cover the sins of every human in history who chooses to accept it. But then – what a wonder – we have Someone who raised Himself from the dead after being in the tomb for three days!
With all these impossible-except-for-God actions on the grandest scale, we can certainly rest in His ability to do difficult things in our own lives and on much smaller scales. God can do what no one else can do!
Love in Christ,
Peggy Holt
member at Open Door Baptist Church in Lebanon, PA
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