“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.” — Jeremiah 32:17

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 myvine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought; for Thou didstmake 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’scommand things which carnal reason would condemn. Whether it be aNoah who is to build a ship on dry land, an Abraham who is to offer uphis only son, or a Moses who is to despise the treasures of Egypt, or aJoshua who is to besiege Jericho seven days, using no weapons but theblasts of rams’ horns, they all act upon God’s command, contrary to thedictates of carnal reason; and the Lord gives them a rich reward as theresult of their obedient faith. Would to God we had in the religion of thesemodern times a more potent infusion of this heroic faith in God. If wewould venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter aworld of wonders to which as yet we are strangers. Let Jeremiah’s place ofconfidence be ours — nothing is too hard for the God that created theheavens and the earth.

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