Ah Lord God

Jeremiah 32:17
"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."

At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem,
and when the sword, famine and pestilence had desolated
the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to purchase a
field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and
witnessed.

This was a strange purchase for a rational man to make.
Prudence could not justify it, for it was buying with scarcely
a probability that the person purchasing could ever enjoy
the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that his
God had bidden him, for well he knew that God will be
justified of all His children.

He reasoned thus: "Ah, Lord God! Thou canst make this
plot of ground of use to me; Thou canst rid this land of these
oppressors; Thou canst make me yet sit under my vine and
my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought; for Thou
didst make the heavens and the earth, and there is nothing
too hard for Thee."

This gave a majesty to the early saints, that they dared to do
at God's command things which carnal reason would condemn.
Whether it be a Noah who is to build a ship on dry land, an
Abraham who is to offer up his only son, or a Moses who is
to despise the treasures of Egypt, or a Joshua who is to besiege
Jericho seven days, using no weapons but the blasts of rams'
horns, they all act upon God's command, contrary to the
dictates of carnal reason; and the Lord gives them a rich
reward as the result of their obedient faith.

Would to God we had in the religion of these modern times
a more potent infusion of this heroic faith in God. If we would
venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should
enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.

Let Jeremiah's place of confidence be ours--nothing
[No ... Nothing!] is too hard for the God that created
the heavens and the earth.

C. H. Spurgeon