Possibility comes first, as I begin this new blog series about the twelve principles in my book The Posture Principle: A practical guide to embracing your true calling. For each principle, I will share a quote and answer three questions. You will find my book a good companion to my blogs, as it includes practical application sections, personal stories and biblical reflections.
‘The woman at the feet of Jesus, risking all she had by breaking the perfume and pouring it over His feet and head, reveals possibility at an extreme. Her extravagance drew from Jesus a response that proclaimed her message beyond her time into infinity, to all people. She did not hold back, she gave all she had, and she knew the most important treasure in her life.’
Why is possibility the first principle? I have three sections to my book, each covering a week and each containing four principles. The first week is Focus. I call the reader to ‘Fix your eyes on Him. Take time to gaze, to look, to think, as He meets you where you are.’ This is because, in understanding Who God is, and allowing Him to show you, is crucial to your walk in life. The first principle of Possibility draws you to hope. A hope that, just as the woman in my quote above saw her impossibility made possible in Jesus, so yours will be and can be. Faith in Jesus Christ begins with possibility!
What is inverted possibility? A negative mindset. If you are consistently expecting bad things to happen, you have what I call an ‘inverted possibility mindset’! I know the freedom of walking out of a family mindset that on my father’s side spoke of ‘murphy’s law’ – i.e. anything that can go wrong will go wrong – and on my mother’s came out of fear due to her childhood wartime experience. Possibility became dread. But together with my husband, freedom to call possibility HOPE shaped our family! Hence the possibility principle of my book, calling us to see the hope that our good Father God gives. He makes all things new.
How can you be so sure? Experiential knowledge, transformation through good expectation, blessed assurance. I haven’t said that we don’t go through hard times. In this world that is a given. Yet it is how you view those, what your persistent mindsets are, that create the difference. When we lost our first baby to a major heart defect at a young age, our perception of everything following could have been deeply untrusting and negative. We could have framed the rest of our lives in that experience. The grief was tough. Exhaustion was tough. Healing was tough. Yet, though we continue to hold him precious and look forward to seeing him one day, we have been given two fabulous sons, a grandson, and a granddaughter on the way!
Hold onto good, expectant possibility, don’t ever let go of hope!
Blessings today and as you read, Martina.
Martina Davis Studio 