The Arm that Does the Impossible!

Jeremiah 32:17  Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

Jeremiah uttered these words when everything around him looked hopeless. Babylon’s armies surrounded Jerusalem, the city was on the brink of destruction, and yet God told Jeremiah to buy a field as a prophetic sign that restoration would come. The prophet responded in awe: the God who created the heavens and the earth by His outstretched arm (bizroa netuyah) is not bound by human circumstances. The same God who set galaxies in place and boundaries for the seas is the God who still moves to redeem His people. Truly, nothing is too hard for Him.

The testimony of Scripture confirms this over and over. When Abraham and Sarah were old and barren, God promised a son. Sarah laughed at the impossibility — yet God replied, “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18:14). Isaac’s birth was living proof God brings life where none is possible. What was beyond human ability was accomplished by the Arm of God.

Centuries later, that same Arm walked among us in the person of Yeshua (Jesus). The gospels show us His mastery over the impossible: blind eyes opened, lepers cleansed, the dead raised. Even the wind and the sea obeyed His command, for the One who set their boundaries at creation still held them in His hand. At His word, storms were silenced and chaos was calmed — a living demonstration that nothing is too hard for the Arm of the LORD.

The cross and the resurrection are the ultimate proof. Sin and death — the greatest impossibilities — were shattered by the Arm stretched wide for us. Where humanity could not rescue itself, the righteousness of God sustained His Arm to finish the work. And in the empty tomb, we see that no grave is too deep for His power to overcome.

Let Jeremiah’s declaration be your anthem: “Ah, Lord GOD, there is nothing too hard for You!” No siege of fear, debt, sickness, or oppression can stand against the Creator of heaven and earth. The God who gave Abraham a son in his old age, who calmed the raging seas with a word, who broke the power of the grave through His Son, is the same God who stretches out His hand over your life today. Lift your eyes from the impossibility before you and fix them on the One who speaks worlds into being. Rest in His strength, declare His power, and stand in faith — for truly, nothing is too hard for Him.

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