"'Is anything too hard for the Lord?' No, nothing is too difficult when we believe in Him enough to go forward, doing His will and letting Him do the impossible for us."
-L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, Nov. 5 Devotion
Have you ever thought or felt like something was impossible?
I have.
The first thing that popped into my head when I was thinking about that question was the day, when I was a teenager, when we found out we were being evicted. It was the beginning of the summer before my senior year of high school. I wondered how I would make it through. I wondered where I would stay, if I would stay at my high school, when we would have enough money to live somewhere, and how long we would be homeless. Needless to say, the road ahead looked insurmountable.
But God had wonderful plans...
I talked to someone at my church and they set me up to volunteer at a camp for kids and adults with special needs for a few weeks. The camp provided me with housing and food, and yet I gained so much more than that. That summer, watching the kids and adults achieve things they never thought was possible, like climbing a rock wall, showed me that God really can do the impossible. I went there to volunteer, yet I gained more than I ever thought I would. I was encouraged to make it through homelessness.
When I was not at the camp, I couch-surfed in about six homes of friends. When it came time to go back to school, I was living with my godmother in a city far from my hometown. The officials at my high school said that if I were to stay there to finish up senior year, I would have to finish high school somewhere else. So I called a few friends from my home town and one said that I could stay at their home in order to finish at the same high school.
During my senior year of high school, while I was still homeless, I took 5 AP courses and 2 honors courses, something that seemed impossible to many. But I kept trusting God...
God has continually shown me that nothing is too big or too impossible for Him. Through Him, it is possible to get through the impossible.
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