Most people are convinced that we are in control of our lives. Many of us are convinced that we are better than most or at least some of the people we knew. We have a certain belief about ourselves that we have the ability to constantly do what is right and to abstain from doing what is wrong. Perhaps that explains why we have so many coffee shop politicians and soccer managers who speak as though they can do a better job than the one holding power. Some of us may believe that we are wired this way by our Creator, but I personally believe that this was the result of the fall of men. Our Lord Jesus was the incarnation of God in bodily form (John1:10-11). In His walk on earth, he had a special attachment to three disciples - Peter, James, and John. Peter was the one who confessed that Jesus was the Christ and that he had nowhere else to go but to follow Christ (John 6:68-70). He was also the one Jesus declared that he will become the stone in which the church will be built upon (Matthew 16:18). Peter believed that he would be able to give his life for Christ Jesus (John 13:37). It turned out that he denied Christ 3 times thereafter. Unthinkable. Christ Jesus once rebuked the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 13:29-30. This was for the fact that the scribes and Pharisees believed that they will not have done what their forefathers did to the prophets God sent in the past. (And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.) However, they became the very ones who executed the Lord Jesus Christ, The Messiah! Again, unthinkable. These examples in scriptures help us to become wiser thinkers. Our sinful nature is capable of doing things unthinkable. Apostle Paul in Romans 12:3 gave us a very wise advise - For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according to as God hath dealt with every man the measure of faith.

May we never overestimate ourselves. May we remain humble and abide in our Lord Jesus Christ. May we always remember that we are capable of doing the unthinkable.