The music of Christmas always blesses my soul. I could listen to it all year long. I love the traditional carols and I love the newer Christmas songs as well.
One of the newer songs (published around 2006) is “The Glorious Impossible.” The song was written by Carl Cartee who explains: “Nothing is impossible with God, that’s true, but the song is intended to be a celebration of God stepping into what was impossible for us and making it glorious through his overcoming power. The verses try to set up pictures of things that seem impossible for us, the incarnation, walking on water, the resurrection and then invite us to believe beyond ourselves and look for miracles that move us to worship.”
The truth of God coming to us as a baby born of a virgin is impossible to comprehend with our finite minds. Many of the theological truths about God make our brains fizzle thinking we must understand them.
Paul spoke of the most glorious of all in his letter to the Philippians. It is a passage we are all familiar with, and yet, it is so beyond our ability to comprehend that it must simply be accepted and allowed to lead us to worship our God and Savior.
“Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—” [Philippians 2:5-8 HCSB]
God emptied Himself and assumed the form of a slave. He took on our likeness. He came as a man. He humbled Himself. He died. How can that be? I do not know. I cannot wrap my mind around it. But … to know that He did that because He loved us and wanted us to be with Him for eternity drives me to my knees in worship.
Possible things are easy to believe. The glorious impossibles are those things that are beyond explanation but bring joy to our hearts, comfort to our souls, hope to our lives, songs to our lips. They cannot be explained, they can only be rejoiced in!
(770) Gaither Vocal Band - The Glorious Impossible [Live] - YouTube