Judges 6:11-24 / Matthew 19:23-30
Page after page of the Bible speaks about a peculiar way of God.
It's about how God would choose the weak and lowly to accomplish a difficult and even seemingly impossible task.
We see this in Abraham, Moses, David, Mary, just to name a few.
It's like how Mary's "Magnificat" puts it: He casts the mighty from their thrones and He raises the lowly.
We see this again in the 1st reading. Gideon was the least important of the weakest clan of the smallest tribe of Israel.
Yet God chose him to be the one to deliver Israel from the oppression of their enemies. It was also to show that the power is from God and not from man.
Indeed as Jesus would reiterate in the gospel - what is impossible for man is not impossible for God.
So when it comes to carrying out God's will or God's plan in our lives, the only obstacle is the limitation posed in our minds and in the minds of others.
So if others are saying "Cannot!", then we should be saying "Why not?!!"
But it's only when we know we are weak, then God will make us strong.
By ourselves, anything is impossible. But with God everything is possible.