“it cannot pass it”

Jeremiah 5.22

Have you ever seen someone hold back one of the most powerful forces of nature with one of the tiniest things on earth?

Think about it… water is a powerful thing, yet it is held back by tiny grains of sand!

God claims that He did that!

The God of the Bible.  The God of creation.  The Lord Jesus Christ!

“But…”

“But…” nobody really cared…

“But…” people thought it was funny for God to “go on and on about who He was and what He did”…

“Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.” Jeremiah 5:22-23

“But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.” 2 Chronicles 36:16

Don’t do that!  Don’t ever think that God is not able to help and to save and to create good, and peace in our lives!  That God can’t hold back the power of sin and death and the grave!

When God chooses to protect us from evil, when God says to the storm, “Peace be still”, then we are safe because… “it cannot pass”!!!

Do we trust that what God says He can do; He really can do?  That should really, really matter to us!