Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah was a prophet — someone believed to carry God's messages to the people of Israel — living during one of the nation's darkest periods. The Babylonian Empire, a powerful ancient kingdom centered in what is now Iraq, had surrounded Jerusalem and was days away from conquering it. Jeremiah was sitting in prison when God gave him a baffling instruction: buy a field. In a city on the verge of destruction and occupation, God told him to invest in real estate. Jeremiah obeyed — and then honestly admitted in prayer that he did not understand why. God's response is this verse: I am the Lord, God of all people everywhere. Is anything too hard for me? It is not a rhetorical boast — it is an invitation to recalculate what is truly possible when God is part of the equation.
God, there are things in my life that feel truly beyond fixing — and honestly, I have mostly stopped asking. But you asked Jeremiah to trust when trust made no logical sense. Help me factor you back into the impossible. Nothing is too hard for you. Amen.
Imagine being told to buy a house in a city being bombed. That is essentially what Jeremiah was asked to do. The Babylonian army was camped outside the walls. Jerusalem was days from destruction and decades from recovery. And God said: go to the real estate office. Jeremiah obeyed — remarkable enough on its own — and then admitted to God in prayer that he genuinely didn't understand why. What follows is one of the most quietly powerful questions in all of Scripture. "Is anything too hard for me?" isn't a boast. It's an offer. God is stepping into Jeremiah's confusion and into yours — saying: I see what you see. I know how it looks. But you are calculating without me in the equation. Whatever feels walled-in right now — a relationship that seems past repair, a door you have stopped knocking on, a dream buried under too much rubble — God is asking you to factor him back in. Not naively, not with your eyes shut, but with the same trembling, obedient trust that went out and bought a field in a burning city.
Why would God tell Jeremiah to buy a field in the middle of a military siege? What was he communicating through that strange, concrete act of obedience?
What is the burning city in your own life right now — the situation that feels too far gone, too broken, or simply too late?
Jeremiah obeyed but still admitted he didn't fully understand. Is it possible to genuinely trust God while still holding real, unanswered questions? What does that look like in your own experience?
How does believing that nothing is too hard for God change the way you pray for people around you who are in desperate or seemingly hopeless situations?
What is one impossible thing you have quietly stopped praying about that you could bring back before God this week, however reluctantly?
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 18:14
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Ephesians 3:20
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah 64:8
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
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Malachi 3:6
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luke 1:37
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19:26
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Mark 10:27
"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is there anything too difficult for Me?"
AMP
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
ESV
'Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?'
NASB
“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
NIV
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
NKJV
“I am the LORD, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?
NLT
"Stay alert! I am God, the God of everything living. Is there anything I can't do?
MSG