Too Difficult for God?

"To despair is to doubt God."  I put that in quotes as I think it a correct wording of what Marilla says to Matthew when Anne left them to take a teaching position.  They were sad to see her go.  It was Marilla and Matthew's empty nest initiation.   (Anne of Green Gables)

I had not planned to put the quote; it came to me as I pondered what I really wanted to share.  Jeremiah is definitely a picture of a man obeying God but sometimes wondering why his life is conflicted in the midst of obedience.  He has come to a place of great encouragement and expresses it to God: "Ah, Lord GOD!  Behold, You have made the heavens and earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!  Nothing is too difficult for You..."  He says much more and then God responds, "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?"   Jeremiah 32:17; 26

Of course, Jeremiah rehearses this before God but it is only Jeremiah who needed to hear it (and us).  God did not have to "behold" that He had made the heavens and earth by His great power.  And He already knew that nothing is too difficult for Him.  No Jeremiah is "being still and knowing that He is GOD."  He is talking to God about God.  And God responded with, "yes, you are so right!  Don't forget."

I want to do that every moment of my walk.  I do not want to despair not just because it hurts so bad but because it dishonors God for us to doubt Him.  "Nothing is too difficult for God."  NOTHING!

"Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you do not know!"  Jeremiah 33:3