Nothing is impossible

“Zechariah asked the angel, ‘How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.’” Luke 1:18
“‘How will this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin?’” Luke 1:34
At a first glance, it would appear that these questions, the first from Zechariah, and the second from Mary, are very similar. Yet the responses from the angel Gabriel were quite different. Zechariah was rebuked and made mute until the day that his son John was born. Mary was given an answer and a promise. So what is the difference?
In Gabriel’s rebuke to Zechariah, he says, “And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time” (Luke 1:20). Zechariah doubted what the angel said, because he and his wife Elizabeth were old, and she had been barren her entire life. However, when it came to Mary, she was curious as to how she would conceive a child while still a virgin – and Gabriel explains how this would happen (Luke 1:35). He also gives her a promise – which Zechariah would also have received, if he had believed: “For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
God is the same today, as He was back then. Nothing is impossible with Him. Do you believe it?