NOTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD.
Jer. 32:27: “Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh; Is there anything too hard for Me?” (See also verse 17.) As I was about to enter the Five Points Mission in New York, a few years ago, I saw a man staggering toward me. His face was a diagram of sin; deceit was in his eye, dissipation in his cheek; his lips were distorted with blasphemy, his clothing a mosaic of patchwork. If misery were to sit for a picture, if sin and crime and shame were subjects for an artist’s pencil, he was a fitting subject. The thought came like an inspiration: Can that sin-polluted body become a temple fit for the Lord? Nothing is too hard for Him! With the thought came prayer; with the prayer came action. The man yielded to the Holy Spirit’s call, and to-day, with shining face, clear eye, and lips filled with praises, he stands clothed, and in his right mind, a power in the slums of the city, making a place for Jesus on earth.