Absolutely, Totally, & in all Other Ways Inconceivable

While on vacation during Spring Break, my daughter and I watched the classic 80’s movie, The Princess Bride.

It’s one of those oft-quoted films, and it has quite the characters…

Vizzini, the ever-scheming bandit ring-leader, is one of those quotable characters.

For example:

“Am I going mad, or did the word THINK escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass.”

Here’s another:

“It would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable.”

Vizzini didn’t believe it was possible for them to be followed or conquered—and he was dead wrong.

Vizzini’s “inconceivable” line reminds me of another character… Nicodemus.

Nicodemus isn’t from The Princess Bride—he’s from the Bible.

One day, while conversing with Jesus, he hears something that blows his mind: “You must be born again.”

Nicodemus incredulously responds, “What do you mean? How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again? How is this possible?”

He was basically quoting Vizzini, “It would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable.”

But Jesus was’t talking about a physical re-birth, he was talking about a spiritual re-birth.

Being born again is another way of saying “being made new”.

Just like Nicodemus, we must be born again—we must be made new.

Sound impossible? Absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable?

“Who in the world can be saved?” Jesus replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
(Luke 18.26, 27 NLT)

Anything’s possible.

http://made-new.com/