Specialize in the Impossible

"The hill country shall be thine" (Josh. 17:18, RV).

There is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those who can. If you cannot move earth by your speech, you may move Heaven. If the development of life on the lower slopes is impossible, through limitations of service, the necessity of maintaining others, and such-like restrictions, let it break out toward the unseen, the eternal, the Divine.

Faith can fell forests. Even if the tribes had realized what treasures lay above them, they would hardly have dared to suppose it possible to rid the hills of their dense forest-growth. But as God indicated their task, He reminded them that they had power enough. The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us, like these forest-covered steeps, not to mock us, but to incite us to spiritual exploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of His own indwelling.

Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works. Are you straitened in the valleys? Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest.  --Daily Devotional Commentary

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Got any rivers they say are uncrossable,
Got any mountains they say 'can't tunnel through'?
We specialize in the wholly impossible,
Doing the things they say you can't do.
--Song of the Panama builders

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Difficulty is not sent to deter you, but to position you to experience the awesome power of God as he performs the impossible through your faith. Difficulty reminds us of our frailty and limitations, but in the same instance it points us to God who is omnipotent.

Often times difficulties come to move us to higher heights. We often get bogged down in the toiling of life and we stop ascending. Difficulty make you want to move; it plants the desire for something beyond what you are currently experiencing.

Maybe, the hardships, hurts, and struggles that you are experiencing is God saying, "The Hill Country Shall Be Thine". He is saying move on up just a little bit higher where I shall do the impossible for you. Don't be discouraged by the difficulties in your life, God is calling you to elevated heights. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace