Impossible is Irrelevant

Impossible is Irrelevant.
 
 
Life seems to constantly throw impossible situations in our faces, but it seems like those impossible situations appear even more so while one is in Africa.      
 
 The last two months in Uganda my team has been challenged with language barriers, sleep deprivation, sickness, stress, healing, doubts, heat, understanding cultural norms, false expectations, fear, homesickness, solutions to needs seen, finding our place in ministry, discouragement, being uncomfortable, and vulnerability. We have also faced challenges due to the extreme poverty, malnourishment, financial instability, and over all, the overwhelming need that is constantly staring us in the face.
This week alone we have all had some sort of impossible situation thrown into our faces. Mary, Makyla, and myself were faced with hearing of an extreme debt at a school we have been visiting. Their debt is specifically due to their unwillingness to turn down children who are unable to pay school fees, because they know how pertinent it is for the children’s future. So, because of their heart, they have been taking out loan after loan to allow these children to come and still be capable of paying the teachers. Upon hearing about this schools state, we have been asked to see if we could come up with a way to help them change their reality. Now, looking at this situation from a worldly standpoint, even more so from a broke college student’s standpoint, this task is IMPOSSIBLE. But God has been showing us that impossible is IRRELEVANT.
Somer has been overwhelmed with vast amount of children who cannot pay school fees, therefore cannot go to school. It is an injustice that they are being kept from the opportunity of schooling which so many of us take for granted in the States. This needs to be changed, but it seems IMPOSSIBLE. But she is finding that to God, impossible is IRRELEVANT.
Along with these specific accounts, the team has been dealing with deaths of those at home, doubts and fears in things we are wrestling with, and waiting on God to work out circumstances in our lives or at home or here in Uganda. We have been seeking God’s guidance on where He wants us post Uganda, our financial states, uncertainty of what is to come, strength for the next day and next two months, and faith to push past what we can see and into the unknown. And some days each of these scenarios seems impossible. Seriously, we’re only 18-23 year olds. We can’t change the financial situation of a school that is deeply in debt. We aren’t capable of sending all the kids in Lira to school, yet alone all the kids in Uganda. We have no control over how situations at home will work out while we are here. We don’t have the strength to not miss home, or to know where God wants us when we return home. We can’t push past our fears, doubts, and insecurities and into the unknown. These tasks are impossible to our meek and lowly lives, we are only college students. But I believe what God is trying to teach us this week, and for the rest of our lives, is that impossible is irrelevant.
Impossible isn’t irrelevant to us because we are capable of handling any of the circumstances we are facing. In fact, we aren’t capable of handling a part the size of a piece of sand. But impossible is irrelevant to us because it is irrelevant to our God. Every one of the above situations is impossible, but we’re fine with that. David killing Goliath was impossible, but David killed Goliath and sent the entire philistine army running for their lives. So in view of God Almighty, impossible will always be irrelevant. The biggest task we have is learning how to see situations with our Almighty God staring down at it. This is when impossible becomes irrelevant to our tiny beings.
 
Luke 1:37 “For nothing is impossible with God.”
Luke 18:27 “Jesus replied, ‘What is impossible with men is possible with God.”
 
Will you live your life seeing impossible situations as impossible, or will you look on them as irrelevant? The choice is yours.