by By Tohru Inoue
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees
And looks at that alone;
Laughs at impossibilities
And cries: It shall be done!
And cries: It shall be done!
And cries: It shall be done!
Laughs at impossibilities
And cries: It shall be done!
-Charles Wesley
The retirees of our mission used to sing that. I’d come across it at prayer meetings as we dotted across the country on home assignments.
There are fewer people now who know the words to that song. No one requests it anymore. It seems like it was from a different time. A time when God’s work felt like it could happen in leaps and impossible bounds, not iterative as it feels like now.
I’m a fan of iterative; there’s progress there. But it sometimes lacks the guts. Guts to go big because we believe God can do anything. It lacks the bold asks that could only be realized by God.
I’m sure the retirees’ who sang this song also had iterative work. I know they also prayed for the small daily needs. But every now and again, they had a bold song they could sing that gave them faith to believe more than what they could reasonably expect.
I haven’t sung this song for 15 years now. I probably don’t have the guts to sing it myself, but I wish someone would lead it… If someone else started it, I might have the guts to believe it all over again.
And to laugh at impossibilities because the thought of it was just so funny.
Tohru Inoue serves as a missionary with SIM Kenya. Read more at https://tohruinoue.substack.com/
