Nothing Is Too Hard for God. Jeremiah 32:17

Frank Wible
Jun 17
2 min read

Anthony stared at the foreclosure notice taped to his front door like it was a death sentence. He had worked three jobs to save this home. It wasn’t much—but it was his kids’ only sense of stability. Divorce had already torn his family in two, and now this? He clenched his jaw, holding back tears. “God,” he whispered, “I’m out of options.”

Foreclosure notice taped to a door in sunset light, with a yellow note that reads "Jeremiah 32:17." Setting feels somber and reflective. — “The world said ‘foreclosure.’ God said ‘not too hard for Me.’”

For weeks, he had prayed. Desperately. Obediently. Nothing had changed. Friends offered kind words, but he needed more than sympathy—he needed a miracle. That night, he walked into his bedroom, collapsed on the floor, and opened his Bible. The pages fell to Jeremiah 32:17. He had never read it before: “Ah, Sovereign Lord… nothing is too hard for You.” The words struck like thunder in his soul.

He spoke them aloud, over and over. “Nothing is too hard for You. Not this house. Not this fear. Not this mess.” Something shifted. The circumstances didn’t disappear—but the fear lost its grip. Anthony decided that night he would believe what the verse said, even if he couldn’t see how it would come true.

He wrote Jeremiah 32:17 on a yellow sticky note and slapped it right in the middle of the foreclosure letter. Every day, he laid that notice on the kitchen table and prayed over it before work. “Lord, stretch out Your arm.” A week later, a loan officer from his credit union called unexpectedly. They were launching a new hardship program—one Anthony qualified for. He reapplied, was approved, and the foreclosure was halted.

It didn’t erase every struggle, but it gave him time, space, and—most importantly—hope. Anthony later shared his testimony at a men’s breakfast. He held up the old notice with the verse still stuck to it and said, “This paper told me it was over. But God’s Word told me it wasn’t too hard for Him.”

Man in deep thought at table with open book, paper labeled "Disclosure," and steaming mug. Sunlight filters through window blinds. — “He laid the problem before God—and let the Word speak louder than the threat.”

Nothing is too hard for God didn’t just change Anthony’s situation—it changed how he saw every obstacle. Now, when a friend is facing something impossible, he doesn’t give advice. He gives them a sticky note with Jeremiah 32:17 written on it.