When God Asks the Impossible

<p>Anyone who listens to this podcast very often can quickly tell that I love old television programs, especially The Andy Griffith Show. I’ve seen every episode multiple times and I drive Bridget absolutely crazy by reciting the lines of the show before the characters say them. To me, it is still one of the best programs ever produced and will never be duplicated.</p> <p>Another one of my favorites was <i>Mission Impossible</i>. Now, to be honest, many people never knew it was an incredibly popular television series <i>long </i>before it became a 4-billion-dollar box office sensation starring Tom Cruise, but it was.</p> <p>It was ahead of its time for broadcast television. It featured drama, intrigue, special effects, scientific ingenuity, covert action and secrecy, and had an all-star cast like Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Sam Elliot, and Leonard Nimoy, just to name a few.</p> <p>Now, the premise of each episode was always the same: A group of undercover agents was sent out to perform a dangerous, seemingly impossible, task. One of the agents was given a case file containing an audio recording that detailed the mission. The tape was then played and always included: <i>Your mission, should you decide to accept it, </i>and would then conclude with the assurance that, <i>as always, should you or any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim. </i>The tape machine and audio recording then went up in smoke and flames. It made for a great hour of television and proved each week that <i>nothing</i> is impossible. </p> <p>But life isn’t always like that, is it? Sometimes, we’re faced with, or asked to do, what seems impossible to us. And we often scratch our heads and wonder how in the world we got ourselves into the situation in the first place, and, more than that, how we’re going to get out of it and promise never to get in that situation again.</p> <p>But, <i>what if it’s God who’s asking y