We measure difficulty by comparing a task with the strength available to accomplish it. Picking up a book is easy. Moving a couch is harder. Moving a mountain is impossible.

But what happens when the strength available is infinite?

Scripture reveals God not merely as stronger than us, but as all-powerful. His strength is unlimited, independent, and undiminished. Creating the heavens does not exhaust Him. Sustaining the universe does not weary Him. Raising the dead does not tax His strength.

This is why Jeremiah could look upon circumstances that appeared utterly impossible and confess, “Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you” (Jeremiah 32:17).

Because nothing is too hard for our all-powerful God, we can trust Him to accomplish everything He purposes and promises.

Nothing Is Too Hard for Him

Jeremiah 32 takes place during a dark moment in Israel’s history. Jerusalem was surrounded by the Babylonian army, judgment was approaching, and Jeremiah himself was imprisoned.

Then God told Jeremiah to do something seemingly foolish: buy a field.

Why purchase property that was already effectively in enemy hands? Jeremiah himself had been preaching that Judah would fall and its people would be carried into captivity.

Yet Jeremiah obeyed because he knew it was the Word of the Lord (Jeremiah 32:6–15).

The purchase was a visible declaration of faith. God promised that after judgment would come restoration: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land” (v. 15).

Jeremiah did not understand everything God was doing, but he knew the God who was doing it. So he prayed, rehearsing God’s mighty works in creation and redemption, before confessing, “Nothing is too hard for you.”

God answered with essentially the same question: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?” (v. 27).

The answer is no.

Jerusalem would fall. Judah would experience judgment. But Babylon could never prevent God from accomplishing His purposes. The same God powerful enough to judge His people was powerful enough to restore them.

The God of Unlimited Power

God’s omnipotence means that God possesses infinite power and is able to accomplish everything He wills consistent with His perfect nature.

God is not simply the strongest being in existence, sitting at the top of some ladder of increasingly powerful creatures. He is in a category entirely His own. Every other power is created, dependent, derived, and limited. God’s power alone is infinite and independent.

“The LORD is the everlasting God,” Isaiah tells us. “He does not faint or grow weary” (Isaiah 40:28).

God never needs to recharge. He never discovers that a task requires more strength than He possesses. He never wills something and then realizes that He lacks the resources to accomplish it.

“Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases” (Psalm 115:3).

This does not mean God can act contrary to His nature. Scripture tells us that God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) or deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13). His inability to be imperfect is not a weakness—it is part of His perfection. Whatever God wills according to His holy nature, He possesses all power necessary to accomplish.

His Power Is on Display

We see God’s omnipotence throughout His works.

His power is displayed in creation. “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made” (Psalm 33:6). The universe in all its staggering immensity exists because God spoke. If God created the heavens and earth, what could possibly happen within them that exceeds His power?

His power is displayed in providence. Christ presently “upholds the universe by the word of his power” (Hebrews 1:3). Every breath and heartbeat ultimately depends upon the God who effortlessly sustains what He has made.

But His power is displayed most wonderfully in redemption.

The cross appeared to be weakness and defeat, yet Scripture calls the message of Christ crucified “the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18). Then came Sunday morning. The stone was rolled away, the tomb was empty, and the risen Christ demonstrated that even death cannot thwart God’s purposes.

That same power is necessary for our salvation. Sinners do not merely need improvement; we are spiritually dead and need resurrection. Yet God, being rich in mercy, “made us alive together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:4–5).

No sinner is beyond Christ’s saving power. No guilt is too great. No heart is too hard. No history of rebellion is too long. The Savior who conquered the grave is mighty to save.

Trust His Power

God’s omnipotence does not mean He will remove every difficulty we face. Jeremiah still watched Jerusalem fall. God’s power did not prevent the trial because, in that moment, the trial itself belonged to His sovereign purpose.

But God’s power meant the trial could never prevent His promise.

That distinction matters for us.

Sometimes faith means obeying God’s Word when obedience appears foolish. Sometimes it means praying boldly when the circumstances appear impossible. Sometimes it means continuing in weakness because Christ tells us, “My power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Our confidence is not that God will use His power to accomplish everything we want. It is that nothing can stop Him from accomplishing everything He wills.

And we have an even greater reason for confidence than Jeremiah did. We look backward at the cross and the empty tomb. God has already accomplished our redemption through the death and resurrection of His Son. Christ will return, the dead will be raised, Satan will be defeated, judgment will come, and God’s redemptive purposes will reach their appointed end.

So when circumstances look like Babylon camped outside the walls, do not measure the future merely by the power you can see.

Obey when you do not understand. Pray when you cannot see the answer. Hold fast when circumstances appear to contradict the promise.

And remember the question God asked Jeremiah:

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?” — Jeremiah 32:27

The answer is still no.