The Fly In The RV

Zechariah 8:6  This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small remnant of God’s people. But is it impossible for me? says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

We were on the road the other day and a fly was buzzing around the RV. I was doing 60 miles an hour in a 31-foot motorhome. This fly could have been anywhere in the RV, and it would have been fine. Instead, it was buzzing around me as I drove.

I got irritated, and thought of ways to kill him, I mean, end his life, er um, send him to be with Jesus.

Have you ever thought about how the fly felt? He started the morning in Massachusetts, and will end the day in New Hampshire! He was flying down the interstate at 65 miles an hour. The fastest fly ever clocked (who is clocking fly speed?) was 24 miles an hour, so he was more than double what he could have ever flown on his own.

He must have thought, “I am amazing! I can do the impossible!” He has every right to think that, but he didn’t do it on his own. If he hadn’t gotten into the RV he would still be stuck in Massachusetts. If he hadn’t been safely tucked away in a motorhome there is no way he could have flown as fast or as far.

Christians are an awful lot like a fly in a motorhome. We have the opportunity to achieve impossible, improbable things, but we can’t do them on our own. In today’s verse God says that what may seem impossible to us is not impossible to him. Matthew 19:26 says, Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

What have you been seeing as impossible in your life? It may seem impossible to you, but it is possible with God, you just need to buckle up for the ride.

Today’s Readings: Zechariah 7-9; Luke 13

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