Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27 King James version
That is the question. The Bible has the answer.
(All KJV unless otherwise noted.)
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: Jeremiah 32:17 (Oh yeah, Genesis 1:1.)
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” Genesis 18:14
10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. (emphasis mine) 24 …I [Daniel] will shew unto the king the interpretation. Daniel 2:10, 11, & 24b It was too hard for the guys who worshipped and served false gods, but it wasn’t too hard for Daniel’s God.
Some people get downright angry when you tell them God is going to keep His promises. In the book of Numbers, they wanted to stone Caleb and Joshua for saying they could actually have what God promised them! (Numbers 14:10)
1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Numbers 14:1-4
Um, what? This is after they had escaped the Egyptians by crossing the parted Red Sea on dry ground. And after none of their people had succumbed to the plagues in Egypt. How could they think like this after all they had seen God do?
The backstory is given in Numbers 13: 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Not everyone was relying on God to do the work of keeping His promise. These men who went up with Caleb to spy out the land only paid attention to the fact that the people there were stronger than they were. And it may have been a fact – the Bible doesn’t record Caleb arguing that those folks weren’t strong; rather, he argued that “the Lord is with us.” Doesn’t that remind you of the verse, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)
Numbers 14
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. (emphasis mine)
See verse 8, where Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb said “If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land…” How do they ensure the Lord is going to delight in them? The next verse tells how. Verse 9 says, “only rebel not ye….” The naysayers were rebelling against God by doubting His Word. He told them they would have the promised land. (That’s why it was called the promised land – God promised it to them.) Instead of going in to claim the promise, they held back in fear.
Well, maybe it’s understandable. Maybe looking at things sense-knowledgewise is just the human thing to do and totally relatable. But this record shows us that, while relatable, remaining in fear is rebellious. You know, it isn’t any more realistic to be fearful and full of unbelief than to believe in the One True God when you’ve seen so much evidence of His ability to keep His promises…
But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. Deuteronomy 11:7
I have been tempted to be like those doubters and naysayers. I can relate to them. I’m sure one reason God had this recorded is so we wouldn’t succumb to the temptation but rather that we would remember: The Lord is with us.
How do you know when the Lord is with you? When you have His promises. Especially when you have His written, recorded promises. Who can talk you out of them?
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning… Job 42:12a
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. Mark 10:27
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:5-8
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:36 & 37
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 2 Corinthians 9:8
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Ephesians 3:20
I wrote most of this article before God brought me across a sort of Red Sea. I saw so many “God things” happening in my life, it’s crazy that I ever have a moment’s doubt of Him. And many, many witnesses have also seen how much God has brought us through. It’s NEVER profitable to question the validity of the promises of God, or to entertain a moment’s doubt of Him. Let’s keep believing, despite what we see by our five senses, following the pattern of Abraham.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Romans 4:16-21 (emphasis mine)
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