At this time, Jeremiah is under arrest for prophesying to the people of Judah.
He told the people they were about to be taken into captivity because
they would not listen to God. The king of
Judah didn’t want to hear this truth. He
wanted his ears to be tickled with false promises of peace.
Outside the walls of the city was the king of Babylon and
he was about to destroy the city and take the people into captivity. At this
time, God tells Jeremiah that the captivity will not last long. The difficulty is going to pass. God will
bring His people back to the land and they will again buy land and build
houses. (See Jeremiah 32:7-15)
God has so overwhelmed Jeremiah with this information
that he trembles in his faith. The situation
looks impossible. Jeremiah couldn’t see how God was going to bring them back
to their land and restore them. God tells Jeremiah,
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me? Jeremiah 32:27
This is what we need to remember in every difficulty. When we are sitting in the shambles of life,
when it seems like everything has absolutely fallen apart; in every trial, we
need to stop and say, “God, You have said that nothing is too difficult for you.” Because the
answer to the question “Is anything too difficult for Me?” is no, nothing is too difficult for God. We have a God who delights in impossibilities. It's His specialty.
So what do we do? Where do we go? How do we find
relief? How do we find hope? The answer is found in Jeremiah 33:2-3,
Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, "Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”
When we are overwhelmed, when we tremble in our faith, when
all we see is impossibilities, we need to call on the Lord knowing that He
will answer us and trust that He will show us mighty things we did not know.
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