Ah LORD GOD! There Is Nothing Too Hard For YOU!"

Think of all the hard things 
there are in your life
(Susannah Spurgeon, "Words of Cheer and 
Comfort for Sick and Sorrowful Souls!" 1898)

"Ah, LORD GOD! Behold, YOU have 
made the heavens and the earth by 
YOUR great power and outstretched arm.
There is nothing too hard for YOU!" 
Jeremiah 32:17

"Then the word of the LORD came 
to Jeremiah: I am the LORD, the GOD 
of all mankind. Is anything too hard for ME?" 
Jeremiah 32:26-27

Dear reader, your difficulties and 
trials may not be similar to those 
of "the weeping prophet," but they 
are very real, and seemingly 
insurmountable to you; and it is 
a fact that, of yourself, you can 
neither overcome nor endure them, 
so I want to remind you that 
the LORD'S hand is not shortened--
that what was true of HIS power 
in Jeremiah's time, 
is as certainly true today--
and that whatever present 
hardship may press upon you, 
or whatever burden may be 
weighing you down--
you, yes, you may look up to HIM 
with confident faith, and say,

"There is nothing too hard for YOU!"

Oh, the blessed peace which 
such an assurance brings! 

I do not know what your particular 
sorrow or hardship may be--
but I do know that, 
whatever its nature--
cruel, or bitter, or hopeless--
it is as "nothing" to HIM! 

HE is able to deliver you--
as easily as you can call upon 
HIM for support and help. 

Now, dear friend, think of all 
the hard things there are 
in your life: 
  hard circumstances,
  difficult duties,
  grievous pains,
  sore struggles,
  bitter disappointments,
  harsh words,
  sinful thoughts,
  a hard heart of your own,
  a hard heart in others. 

Gather all these, and many more together, 
and pile them one on another till you 
have one great mountain of afflictions--
and your GOD still calmly asks the question, 

"Is there anything too hard for ME?"

When our hearts are weary of life's 
cares and crosses, when our courage 
flags because of our helplessness, 
and we cry out with the patriarch, 

"All these things are against me!"--
(Genesis 42:36e)

what a support and stronghold 
is the fact that our GOD has all 
power in Heaven and on earth! 

There is nothing too 
mighty for HIM to manage--
there is nothing too insignificant 
to escape HIS notice! 

Jeremiah's faith . . .
  sees no obstacles, 
  stumbles at no hindrances,
  faints under no burden,
  shrinks from no responsibilities--
because he realizes the sublime 
OMNIPOTENCE of GOD, and fortifies 
himself by calling to remembrance 
HIS "outstretched arm" in the creation 
of the Heavens and the earth. 
Cannot we do likewise?

I took up a book, in a leisure moment 
the other day, opened it carelessly, 
and this is what I read: "It is a scientifically 
proved fact, that this great globe on which 
we live, spins around on its axis at the rate 
of a thousand miles an hour, and propels 
through space in its orbit at a speed 
immensely greater!" 

The thought of this, seemed 
almost to take away my breath! 

Was I calmly and constantly living 
in the swirl of such a stupendous 
miracle as this? Then surely 
I could say, 
"Ah, LORD GOD! there is nothing 
too hard for YOU! 
My little troubles and afflictions--
how small they must be to YOU; 
yet with what tender compassion, 
do YOU stoop from guiding 
the worlds in their courses, 
to support and comfort the 
hearts of those who fear YOU!"

Never let us give up in despair, while 
we have such a GOD to trust in. If 
there is a great mountain of sorrow 
or difficulty in your way, dear friend--
do not be cast down by the darkness 
of its shadow. Your GOD can either 
make a way for you through it--
or HE can guide you around it--
or, just as easily, HE can carry 
you right over it! 

There is nothing too hard for HIM! 

Expect HIM to make the crooked 
things straight, and to bring the high 
things low; and while you keep humbly 
at HIS feet, HE will work wondrously, 
and you shall see HIS salvation!

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Just a reminder: yesterday we published J.R. Miller's superb book, 
"Christlike Living in a Sinful World".