Monday, August 4, 2008

Mon., 8/4/08 Devotion (Jer. 32:26-27)

Today's encouragement comes from Jeremiah 32:26 & 27, which says this:

"Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 'Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?' "

Nothing is too hard for God, because no circumstance or situation is outside of His complete ability to rectify (it). When even the prophet Jeremiah considered God's promise, that the people would return to the land, it seemed utterly preposterous (to Jeremiah) that it could actually come to pass.

Perhaps you are facing something today that truly is humanly-impossible. But, what is not possible for man is possible for God. Why not lay your situation out before Him, and ask Him to do some great miracle? If He chooses to do so, great; if not, you know that He knows what is best for you.

[Puritan quote of the day: "Keep the soul open to entertain the Holy Ghost, for He will bring in continually fresh forces to subdue corruption, and this most of all on the Lord's Day." --Richard Sibbes, in "The Bruised Reed"]