God of the Impossible

READ: LUKE 8:22-56 Who doesn’t love a good superhero movie? It’s fun to imagine someone “somewhere out there” who’s not bound by the laws of nature like we are—someone who comes to the rescue when weak earthlings find themselves in trouble they can’t escape. While many of us daydream of being a superhero, I think many of us also have a craving to be rescued by a superhero. And those dreams of a rescuer are not that far off. If you’re familiar with the true stories found in the Bible, you know that unpredictable, unexplainable, unimaginable rescue stories appear quite frequently in both the Old and New Testaments. Think about it: a boy defeating a giant with one stone, a man kept alive in a pit of hungry lions, a raging storm stilled in an instant, thousands upon thousands of people crossing the Red Sea on dry ground, a man healed from lifelong blindness, a twelve-year-old girl brought back from the dead…and the God of the universe becoming human to defeat the devil in the mos...