There Is Nothing God Values Like A Man Who Trembles At His Word.

Do We Tremble At His Word Or Neglect/Trifle With It?


On the heels of the exact fulfillment of a prophetic word given to him, Jeremiah in awe of God, prayed thus: "Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee". Jeremiah 32:17.


Words uttered in prayer by a prophet who was shut up in prison; shut up for the word/prophecy he had given from the mouth of the Lord, yet he says not this of God as an expression of His absolute power to deliver him from prison, but as an expression of his might in bringing to pass what he has spoken.

His obsession and occupation was not with the ugly situation he was in, to be delivered from it, but with the Word of the Lord and how the Lord does not want/lack in power to bring to pass, that which he has spoken.

In prayer, he is thus in awe of God's great power to perform his Word...'Ah Lord God! Alas Jehovah"....Here is a man trembling at the Word of the Lord as that which God told him concerning his cousin Hanameel, came to pass.

God's eyes & attention are on them that tremble at his word. Earlier in the book of prophet Isaiah, we read God say: "to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word."(Isaiah 66:2).

The expression of Jeremiah in trembling at the word of the Lord caught the attention of God as God responded immediately saying..."Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

Juxtapose Jeremiah 32 verse 17 with verse 27 and you will see how in prayer, Jeremiah is on the same page with God, for that which he had said in prayer, is exactly what God emphasized in response. 👇🏽


17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 

27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? 

These are verses/portions of scripture most of us are used to in their application in prayers for miracles, breakthrough and divine intervention.
It's not bad applying them in that sense but it's bad if we have never taken our time to read and contextually understand, the actual communication of God & it's very implications, when these words were spoken in the scriptures of truth.

We will never know the weight of these words & many of such other words written, if we maintain a piecemeal attitude to scriptures, cherry-picking & applying them in the context of our need for miracles & breakthrough.

Where the gravity of the Word of the Lord is not understood/known, there also the people cannot tremble at the Word of the Lord, but trifle with & take for granted, his Words to their own peril.

If you have never taken your time to read/study & understand Jeremiah 32, you would never know that it's in the context of the certain pending judgment of God's people for their rebellion against His Word/Commandments, that these words were spoken; expressing that God shall not fail in bringing to pass his word concerning the judgment of the rebellion of his people, for nothing is too hard for him. 

One might say but this happened in the old testament, which is characterized by judgment and wrath, but the truth is that even in the new we are told that God's judgment will be severer & sorer than that of the old, if we despise the unspeakable grace that has apprehended us.

In Hebrews 10:27-31, the writer by the inspiration of the HolySpirit speaks of the certainty and fearfulness of God's judgment on his people who trifle with his word & despise the Spirit of grace.

May we be a people who tremble at his Word; giving the more earnest attention and heed to the things we have heard lest at anytime we ourselves should slip away from them.

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