Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me
I’m sure there have been many times when you have felt as if things were just out of control, like the wrong people are winning and God is nowhere to be found. Jeremiah was a man who lived in such a world. The kings of God’s own people, Judah for instance, were wicked people. They were rebelling against God. Then there was Babylon and mighty Nebuchadnezzar who seemed to be in charge of the entire world. At times, Jeremiah must have wondered, “Where is God?” Yet, he prophesied God’s Word that the day would come where He would restore His people to their land.
In order to prove that what Jeremiah said he also believed, God told him to buy property in Anathoth, a land occupied by the Babylonians. In other words, he was to buy property in surety that God would keep His Word.
Jeremiah responds in Jeremiah 32:17 by saying, “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.” If God could make the heaven and make the earth by His power, there is nothing too hard for God, nothing in earth or out of the earth. In verse 27 God confirms this by His own words when He says, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” God is not just the God of the Jewish people or the God of people in my home in America. God is the God of the whole earth and He says there is nothing too hard for Him.
Interestingly enough, everything seemed to be too hard at the time that Jeremiah gave this prophesy. For instance, the Bible says that the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, besieged Jerusalem. That was the context of the prophesy he was giving. At the same time Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had shut Jeremiah up in prison. So, the bad guys were besieging God’s people and the good guys were not acting like they were good guys because they were locking up God’s prophet.
Nebuchadnezzar was threatening Judah and Judah had imprisoned Jeremiah, yet Jeremiah realized that God owned the land and God gives the land. It is so easy for us to think that someone else is in control, yet God says to this in verse 22, “And hast given them this land.” Again, in verse 28 He says, “Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of…Nebuchadnezzar.” God gave this land to His people and God would give this land to the invading armies. In other words, God owns it. You may hold the land, siege the land, and buy or sell the land, but God owns it and God gives it.
That is why ultimately faith acts on unseen realities, things that perhaps we do not see but we know because we know God. It says in verses 36-38, “And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city…I will gather them…I will bring them again…I will cause them to dwell safely…I will be their God.”
Today, I don’t know how much you can see, but there is no doubt that it is not nearly all that there is to see. There may be people sieging the land, holding the land, or buying and selling the land, but God owns everything and He gives it to whom He will. So, faith is not knowing all the answers. It is knowing the God Who does. It is acting on unseen realities and trusting the God Who rules all to make things right.