We often find ourselves in situations where it seems like the Lord has given us an impossible commandment. Does this seem like the kind of thing that a loving Father would give to His children? If God loves us and would never ask us to do something unless there was a way for us to be obedient to His commandment, then why do we find ourselves in these paradoxical situations? I believe that the main problem is that when we are given a commandment that seems impossible, the impossibility comes from our attempting to apply the laws of a corrupt and fallen world onto a celestial commandment. If we try to use what makes sense logically according to the laws of physics and nature and human behavior as we understand them and as they exist in this imperfect world, then of course God’s commandments won’t make sense or be possible. If you try to feed five thousand people with a few loaves and fishes using the laws of conservation of mass and human metabolism as they operate in an imperfect world, it’s just not going to happen. But as Jesus was obedient to Celestial laws, He was able to feed all of those people until they were full, when what he started with would not have been enough to make even two or three people full. The truth is, the laws that operate in our world are the aberration and Celestial laws are the norm. When God asks us to do something that seems to us like a miracle, we are not violating eternal laws and principles. Rather, through the divine might of the Lord, we are actually finally being obedient to Celestial laws and ignoring the laws of a corrupt and fallen world. The more and more obedient we are to Celestial laws, the more miracles we will see in our life by the sheer fact that so many of our mortal laws often conflict with Celestial laws. The truth is, if we will have the faith and the humility to be 100% obedient, then even the most impossible seeming commandment will not only become possible but seem almost inevitable, such that it will seem strange to us that we ever doubted that it could be completed.
