"Is Anything too Hard for the LORD?"

This week has been an interesting one. There have been different situations going on in my own life, as well as the lives of my friends. I've been finding myself feeling ambushed by the numerous assignments that I need to get done within these last five weeks of school. I've spent the last two days in my school's café since 7:30 AM in attempts to be productive and conquer all of these assignments; I've only been leaving to get food, go to chapel, or go to class. That being said, I've found myself feeling exhausted, frustrated, headache-y, unrested, overwhelmed, and defeated.

Something else that I've been doing this week is working my way through the book of Genesis along with one of my friends, and we've been using videos from the YouTube channel "The Bible Project" to assist our study of this book of the Bible. Yesterday morning I read through Genesis 12-18, and when I was in Genesis 18, I was struck by verse 14 which begins with the question, "Is anything too hard for the LORD?"

This week has been teaching me that there are plenty of things in this life that are too hard for me. As much as I wish this was possible, I cannot be in two places at once; I can't be in class, but also in the café tackling assignments at the same time.

While sitting in the quiet café in the "early" hours of the morning yesterday with no one else around, working on researching for a score study paper on Handel's Messiah, I keep coming back to the question from Genesis 18:14.

The answer is no, and the comfort that that comes from that is amazing.

As I shared both the joys and trials of my week with one of my close friends over supper last night, I was telling her that while almost everything this week has seemed to be too hard for me, I know that nothing is too hard for the LORD. My heart is filled with so much peace, knowing that I don't live my life to please other people, but rather I live my life to serve and honour a God who is so much larger, more powerful, and more capable than I. As my favourite verses (2 Corinthians 12:9-10) remind me, "His power is made perfect in my weakness".

I have seen God's ultimate power and sovereignty displayed so much throughout the course of just the past four or five days. I'm incredibly overwhelmed (in a good way) by how small and how weak I am in comparison to the LORD, and every day I become increasingly grateful that He unconditionally bestows His love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness on me no matter what. I recognize that I wouldn't have been able to make it through everything that I've had to do this week without dedicating each day to God, and saturating my days in prayers for strength, joy, and stamina that I know I am unable to provide for myself.

I have so much love and gratefulness for what the LORD does in my life on a daily basis. I'm thankful that He always shows up. In the good times and bad, He is sovereign on His throne and constantly watching over His children.

"Is anything too hard for the LORD?"

{Genesis 18:14a}