Thoughts for another day

March 26, 2010

Today's verse: Jer. 32:27. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

As we journey through life, we face pitfalls and difficult situations. Besides, there are diseases we can hardly do anything about. These bring us down hard and eventually destroy us. Every person born on earth is faced with a difficulty sometime or other and is at his wit’s end facing it. These sap the energy out of us, making us helpless. No human help or mechanism is to any avail and most of the time there’s nothing one can do and you think, ‘what am I to do; isn’t death better now?’

But we know what to do. When there’s an impossible situation, we need to leave everything and go to the God who speaks the Word of our Scripture today. With His own Words, God articulates and declares that He is the LORD, the God of all flesh. He questions, ‘Is there anything too hard for Me?’ Think about it, is there anything too hard for Him? We know the answer: His power is amazing and treads every cell, of whatever is on the earth. When sickness strikes, we know the body is made by Him, so He can make us well quickly. When we’re desperately looking for finance, He can send it and we need not know how, for it is His discretion. For us, the finance is necessary, not the way it comes and we know with God, all is legal. When the business isn’t picking up, He knows when to send a flurry of customers and suddenly the business which was looking so bleak just an hour ago now seems to be huge! When a student finds learning difficult, God makes it so the answers just seep into his mind and then surprise, the questions in the paper are the very questions he studied!!! Amazing, just amazing are His ways. He plans for us with His knowledge of the future and our past and they’re awesome. In everything God straddles the impossible and makes it possible for there’s nothing, yet nothing that’s beyond Him.

We just need to believe Him. In John’s Gospel, Jesus asks the people (and us too), to just believe. Believe, believe, believe… that’s what we need to do for God to work and work He will for He just waits for the opportunity to work for us. In 1 Kgs. 20:28ff there’s an example of what I say. Ahab is a wicked king, yet the Lord gives him victory, simply because the people of Aram attribute wrong character to God in saying He is God of the mountains only. Notice here God was merely looking for an excuse to help the Israelites despite the king being so evil and I know He is doing the same with you and me today knowing well how wicked we are. So let’s rise and call on Him when we are down and out for He will refresh us accordingly.