What God Cannot Do Does Not Exist

 

This title has become a very popular statement among a certain group of Christians around the world; and while logically or literally it may appear to be wrong because every living being that can will itself to do a thing can also wield the same willpower to not do certain things. And so, we can say God cannot lie, God cannot fail etc. Yet at the same time, when God needed the King called Ahab to be lied to, He sent a deceptive spirit into one of the king’s seers to achieve that. When the same king assumed God wouldn’t fail because he thought wrong, in that God would grant him victory, he fell in battle. In other words, on the surface, it’s a conclusion that cannot be true of anyone when you carefully analyze all the premises surrounding this argument.

However, this is more contextual than anything else. First because we cannot compare the ways of man to the ways of a god.  We can’t juxtapose the limitations of physical qualities when metaphysical features intervene. And especially not with a being as majestic and all-powerful as God. 

In such a situation, logic would fail; it would only scratch the surface, yielding only what seems like an idea of the truth, but of a truth that isn’t truly truth. Logic cannot be a great tool to evaluate God because what are the criteria to base such logic on? The only way it works is when evaluating God’s work amongst men by men; because then the man factor can support our premises. You’d note how Jeremiah put this statement instead. He translated God’s own affirmations as “…Is there anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:27). Why? Because though God may not do certain things, but if needs be He can. He might not, but He definitely can. It’s the principal attribute of a Sovereign entity—the ability to do all and anything without limit.  

However, as I said, this is more contextual; and based on this there is nothing that exists that God cannot do. Truly. There’s no challenge that can resist His will. 

This is good news for us. It means there’s nothing that God can’t make possible even with the least qualified amongst us. I understand that sometimes it’s easier to believe that some things can’t happen than to believe and have our hopes dashed eventually; but while there remains a possibility of such disappointments occurring despite God being involved, it is very important that you keep in heart that there is truly nothing God can’t do.

Look at your present situation and consider all you’ve dismissed as ever being possible again. Perhaps you had certain dreams as a young fellow and now you’ve been beaten by time and think such dreams are lost, I want you to know that while there’s a chance things can stay that way, there’s also a greater chance that it could all change before you know it. You know why? Because in reality, it costs God nothing. And I’ve seen both happen in my lifetime. I’ve seen dreams going unfulfilled and I’ve seen them getting fulfilled even at the sunset of people’s lives. The main thing to take from this is the fact that God can do anything He pleases to see happen, and He readily does these things for those who have honest hearts.

Permit me to digress a bit. I have always considered this to be the most important characteristic of anyone who seeks to Know God. Sincerity. The scripture says in the Psalms that of such a heart He never despises. A heart that easily accept its flaws, without the need to pretend before God; because first of all it’s stupid to try and pretend before God, and because second it reveals how similar such a man is to the perfect man God made at creation.

You see, the thing about Adam before the fall wasn’t that he was some perfect creature that knew all things or did all the right things. It was in how liberal he was with God. How eager he was to learn. How desperate he was to fellowship with God. He was like a kid who yearns to always be around its mother. There was a natural bond that kept him and God ever together and each hearts open to one another. And when a man has an honest heart, he is gradually on the right path to becoming such a man as Adam was in the early days.

Furthermore, such a man knows that these words are true. There is nothing God cannot do. It’s a matter of if He wants to do it or not, but He can. The latter is another story entirely, however to get Him to, one must solemnly believe the foregoing. One must first believe that He is, and that He can do exceedingly and abundantly beyond what any person can imagine or think.

Let that sink in a bit.

What that means is that if you can think or imagine a thing, He can do it. Such that if you are sick right now or have someone who is sick, and you can harness the desire to imagine them as whole again, God can do that. The same goes for any other scenario. There is no limit; that’s why it is said “…beyond all we can think or imagine.” So even those we don’t have the brainpower to think nor the willpower to imagine, He can also accomplish. And this is exactly how He wants us thinking. This is the mentality He wants from us.

I’d like to leave you with these words of Jonathan. On a fair day, despite the odds being against them, he decided to march against the camp of an enemy nation. That was quite funny, strategy-wise. Yet the funnier part of this situation was that his army included just himself and his armor bearer. But consider his words: “It may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.” (1 Samuel 14:6). And God did save them and through them produced one of the greatest and sweat-less victories in the history of Israel.

As such, the odds might seem unfavorable; don’t worry, they always are. That’s how life works. It gives nothing on a platter, not to most, not even hope. That’s why many die even while living. For there is no true living without motion, without attempting to outdo one’s self, without trying to be something. And there can be none of this in the first place without hope. The hope that things can be different, that things can be better. That’s why it’s pertinent to never stop hoping so as to never stop trying; and the one way you can achieve that is by knowing that there is no restraint to what can be. It doesn’t matter if on the grand scale of things it seems as though you represent the MANY or perhaps the FEW, what matters is that you understand that none of this matters if God will make a thing happen or not. It is also pertinent that you hold this statement strongly in your heart. And peradventure things don’t change, at least you’d have left this world with a good fight, but if it does, then maybe you would be the newest of this group of people around the world who cannot help but say “What God cannot do does not exist.”