There is Nothing Too Hard for God

We all have treaded certain paths where we feel we have reached a dead end and everything seems to be out of our control. A medical diagnosis, financial hardships, relationship failures, loss of a loved one makes us feel that there is no hope left. Humans have limitations but we serve a limitless God. If God Himself took the form of a man and dwelt on earth as Jesus Christ, there is nothing too difficult for Him to do. We often set boundaries for what God is capable of doing, rather than abounding in faith that He is an Almighty God and His ways and thoughts are much higher than ours. Jews missed to recognize Messiah as they tried to put limits on God. Since they never saw God in the form of Jesus in the Torah, they didn’t believe that ‘The Word could become flesh and make His dwelling among them’.

I was deeply moved when I read and pondered upon the passage of Jesus raising the widow’s son at Nain. While Jesus and a great multitude was entering Nain, there was another crowd leaving the town mourning. Being surrounded by large crowds, it would have been easy for the mother of the dead to go unnoticed. But Jesus’ eyes didn’t miss to see His creation weeping. Even though this grieving mother may not have understood it was her Creator passing by, He realized that she was a widow and her only son, only hope left in her life had died too. God Almighty had compassion on this widow and did not let her cry go unnoticed. He paused his journey and the Creator of everything went towards her!

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother

When God intersected with the dead hopes of the widow at the gate of the town of Nain, he touched the bier and restored the son’s life. When we invite God into the dead areas of our life, he touches and transforms us in ways which we had not imagined and new hopes will arise.

Quite often we think Almighty God is focussed on other things that He doesn’t see our sorrows and tears. But David reminds us in Psalms 56:8 that,

“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”

Exo 3:7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings ...

We serve a God who hears our cry and knows our sufferings. He will do a miracle for you at the appointed time.

Just like Jesus taking the initiative and coming towards the dead son’s mother at Nain, we see Him taking the first step towards another hopeless situation in Luke 5.

Luke 5: 1-6 So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

It was a rough day in the life of these fishermen at the Lake of Gennesaret and they were washing their nets after giving up all hopes for a catch which could at least meet their daily needs. But we see Jesus stepping into the boat in it’s empty state.

When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”

Just like Simon, we too assert that at times what God asks us to do doesn’t seem to make much sense. These were fishermen who had nearly mastered the art of fishing and knew when and where they could find a catch. But on that day, those waters gave no results and they were overpowered by the currents of uncertainties. Although they had lost all hopes, and were filled with disappointments and anxiety on how to meet their needs for that day, they obeyed Jesus’ words even though it didn’t make perfect sense.

When God asks us to do something beyond our experience, if we show complete faith in Him and cast our nets of emptiness and past failures before Him, He is faithful to fill it beyond our expectations. Later when you look back, you will understand that it was worth inviting Jesus into the empty realms in your life.

And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.

Another impossibility that God stepped into could be seen from the life of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham shared before God the pain in his heart of remaining childless in his old age and not having an heir who would inherit his possessions and carry on his family lineage. But even in Abraham’s old age, God promised to him in Gen 15:4-5

Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

If you are burdened by delays to receive your promises, and are weighed down by the odds of your past failures, dire medical diagnosis, barrenness, let’s believe as Abraham believed out of all his circumstances. It could have been hard for Abraham to believe such a promise as he had already waited for a blessing for many years, and he couldn’t see any glimpse of hope looking at his circumstances. But he didn't put limits on what God could accomplish in his life. Abraham trusted the promises of God and therefore was able to see the fulfilment of those promises.

Num 23:19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Are there any promises from God which you haven’t seen fulfilled yet? Have you thought, perhaps God has changed His plans and those promises will never be fulfilled? Recall those promises which are yet to see its fulfillment and profess words of faith into them and get ready to receive those blessings from God. All His promises stand true and it will not change though heaven and earth pass away.

Remove the disbelief from your minds and start to pray about those requests which you had removed from your prayer list thinking it is quite impossible or has surpassed its timeline. Leave aside your past experiences to experience the joy of trusting and obeying God while you navigate the rough waters.

Jeremiah 32: 27 "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?

Never underestimate what God is capable of doing in your life, for with God all things are possible.

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