We sometimes here people say, “I was born this way” or “I have this birth defect” as if either of those mean that is that… you’re just stuck with whatever you were born with. Yet, we also know that with God, nothing is impossible. In John 9 Jesus heals a man who was born blind. The shock of it ripples through the community until the man is brought before the Pharisees and questioned about Jesus and his methods.
In this account, we learn that nothing is impossible for God. Even being born with a problem is no reason to assume a challenge cannot be overcome or a defect cannot be corrected. How many times do we think to pray for God to correct a chromosomal problem? A genetic defect? A birth defect? I’d wager to guess we rarely ask for something so fundamental as the root cause to be corrected. Perhaps we assume those things are too much to ask. But why not? Why not ask? You don’t receive if you don’t ask.
Sure, it may be your lot in life to deal with a problem or challenge that came here with you from birth, but it may not. You’ll never know until you ask. In this session I talk about a couple issues that I have that were birth defects. One has been surgically corrected and the other, God led me to work-arounds that have made the defect a non-issue.
Remember, anything is impossible with God and to those who believe.