Nothing Too Hard

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 248, Nothing Too Hard.

"‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you." Jeremiah 32:17.

To understand this verse rightly, you need the scene. The Babylonian army is besieging Jerusalem. The walls are about to fall. And at that exact moment, God tells Jeremiah to do something that looks like madness: buy a field in Anathoth, a piece of land in a city about to be captured by the enemy. Imagine investing money in real estate in a city currently under invasion. It makes no sense at all, humanly speaking.

But Jeremiah obeys. He buys the field, signs the documents, hands over the money. And then he does what we should always do after a hard act of faith: he prays. And the prayer opens like this — "Ah, Lord GOD." It's not a complaint. It's the sigh of someone trying to understand what God is doing through an action that seems absurd.

And before asking for anything, before questioning anything, Jeremiah declares who God is. "It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm." Notice the order: worship comes first, then the request. Jeremiah is reminding himself — out loud, before God — exactly who he is speaking to.

And that phrase, "outstretched arm," is not random. It's the same image used in the Exodus, when God brought the enslaved people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Jeremiah is connecting two things: the God who created the universe is the same God who has already delivered His people before. The power of creation and the power of deliverance come from the same source.

And then comes the central confession: "Nothing is too hard for you." Not "almost nothing." Not "most things." Nothing. Before the power that made the heavens and the earth out of nothing, the siege of an army, however terrifying it looks to human eyes, is no match at all.

And God answers Jeremiah by confirming exactly that: fields, houses, and vineyards would still be bought in that land. The purchase of the field wasn't naivety. It was prophecy in motion — a physical, concrete sign that even with the city falling now, ordinary life would flourish there again one day.

My friend, maybe you're facing something that feels like a siege. A situation surrounded on every side, with no visible way out. Maybe it's financial, maybe it's health, maybe it's a relationship that seems impossible to restore. I want to invite you to do what Jeremiah did: before asking for anything, stop and declare out loud who the God is that you're speaking to. And then name your impossible situation, and say: "nothing is too hard for You, Lord."

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.