Why Mission Impossible isn't

It's been awhile since Mission Impossible was a primetime television show. But there was a time when it was popular on television, and then it became some blockbuster movies.

You may remember the theme music. And it always began with Jim Phelps, who was the head of the Impossible Missions Force. He'd get the latest assignment, then get some photos that described a mission that was considered by his superior to be virtually impossible. The voice would come on and say, "Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it is ..." Then when the mission was explained, they'd say, "This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds." And it just all blew up at that point.

Jim would then go back and put together his team, and the rest of the story was how they pulled off this assignment that was supposedly undoable. Now, I haven't seen Mission Impossible for a long time, but I don't need to. I live it. And maybe you do too ... or you could.

Do you ever look at the week, day, or month and say, "Mission impossible! It can't work! I can't do it!" I do that. For example, I remember when I saw a week ahead of me that was a mountain of deadlines, decisions, responsibilities, and people. And I tell you the truth; I know what it is to panic when I look at that wall-to-wall, jam-packed week or month ahead. Maybe you do, too?

At that point, I had been reading 2 Corinthians for my personal time with the Lord each morning, and that morning (and you know, the Lord is good about this), I read the next passage, and He lovingly gave me a verse that changed everything. Now you might be facing a challenge or challenges that look like some unmovable mountain right now. Maybe it's family, school, work, or maybe you've got some relational mountains to move. Maybe it's a ministry you're doing; or medical issues. It's not the tape that's about to self-destruct like in Mission Impossible; it's you.

Listen to this beautiful, redemptive verse in 2 Corinthians 9:8. I committed it to memory at that moment. "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." No loopholes ... all, all, all, all, all. "God is going to give you all grace, in all things, at all times, having all that you need." There's no attorney on earth who could find a loophole there.

And you know what the word ‘abound’ means? It says, "God will make you abound ..." His grace abounding to you so you can abound in every good work. It means literally from the Greek, "more than enough," or "to be left over," or "to make extremely rich." It was the same word used to describe the feeding of the 5,000. Remember, they thought there wouldn't be enough for the crowd, and then instead they had 12 baskets with fragments of leftover lunch to spare. That's the same word - leftovers, lots to spare.

If you depend on the adrenaline of God's grace for this mountain, you will get it done, and you will have resources left over if you're using His resources. And those impossible weeks? I've found out over and over again; those turn into some of the most supernatural weeks I've ever experienced, because I was riding on this promise. Everything happened; and it happened better than I could have ever dreamed.

See, God makes you extremely rich in grace so you can make others extremely rich through the good works you have to do. God gives us “plenty," so we can plenty those around us. You have in Christ more than enough grace for every assignment God has given you.

And that's why your Mission Impossible isn't impossible.

© Brad Hutchcraft 2024