God calls all of us to the impossible: an impossible standard, an impossible life, an impossible faith. The Divine legislation was not designed to awaken our natural ability but to reveal our inability, our impotence, our sin (Romans 3:19-20). It forces us to come to an end of our own resources and find the only way to godly living is if God supernaturally changes our hearts. That is why I can only shake my head when I saw a Yahoo! News headline yesterday which declared that some Christian rocker had come out as gay and left his family. It is not as if this rocker did not know that living for Christ is a call to do something against his very nature. This is explicitly made known throughout the scripture. God calls all of us to a radical, impossible life of self-denial. not a life of self-fulfillment. It is no easier for me than it is for him. Someone might say that they feel happier to do something natural, but so what? What we want, our happiness is not the goal. To be a Christian we are no longer our own but are the Lord's.Frankly, I am not sure what was newsworthy about the Yahoo! story. The man is just doing what is natural to him; sinning. What would really be newsworthy is to do a story about a person who does something that is impossible -- someone who, by the regenerating grace of God, has broken his lifestyle of sinning and lives in a way of love that goes against his nature (1 John 3:9). There are plenty of those stories but I do not see them make the headlines. Impossible to live against our nature? yes, of course. That is the point. "But what is impossible for man is possible with God." (Luke 18:27)