Spurgeon: June PM
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"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 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
is too hard for the God that created the heavens and the earth.