for the lord? In Genesis 18:10, Abraham, the father of all believers, is given a promise by none other than the Lord God Almighty. When the Lord tells Abraham that his wife Sarah will have a son the next year, she laughed to herself as she thought of herself and her husband’s aging physical state. But God knew what was going on in Sarah’s mind and He asks her “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14).
When God made this statement He was asserting the fact that He is Almighty God and He has power and authority over everything. He was trying to emphasize on Sarah that He even knew the fact that she had laughed to herself. He is very assertive when He says “Yes, you did laugh”. He was also making a point with Sarah that He is an omniscient God (Genesis 18:15).
There was nothing wrong the way Sarah was thinking because that is the norm. By human standards, her body was past the age of child-bearing, she had not seen anyone giving birth at this age. Abraham too had not got any younger. Then how could she possibly believe in what she had just heard. And that is exactly what God was trying to build in her – Trust, faith and belief in God, because she was going to be the mother of all believers. Abraham on his part had left his country, his people and his father’s household, on a word from a God he had never seen or heard. Yet again, when he was told by the Lord that his offspring will be like the stars in heavens, he believed the Lord and it was credited to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). All that, put him on a mantel where he could be counted as the father of the believers and God wanted Sarah to be on that level too. We can see Paul speaking of Sarah’s faith in Hebrew 11:11. In short, for the promised child Isaac to be born, God wanted the faith level of Abraham and Sarah to be at par with each other. But in the end God proved, that nothing was too hard for Him.
When Job went through all his afflictions, he had many questions. Some were directed towards his creator. But when God appears with counter-questions in Job chaps 38-41, Job had to succumb to his creator’s might and goes on to say “I know you can do all things…” (Job 42:2).
In Jeremiah chap 32 God is tells Jeremiah to hold on to the words that the Lord has given him about the land about being subdued by a gentile nation and then deliverance by the hand of the Almighty God when “houses, fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land” (Jeremiah 32:15). In verse 27, God is asking him “Is there anything too hard for me”
In whatever situation we are in, always remember this – OUR FAITH AND GOD’S FAITHFULNESS CAN GO A LONG WAY, WORKING MIRACLES, ALTERING CIRCUMSTANCES, CHANGING LIVES AND SAVING SOULS.