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Numbers chapter 11 verse 23 and the Lord said to Moses is the Lord's hand shortened?

Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not?

What a great penetrating powerful question.

Is the Lord's hand shortened? God says.

Is my hand short?

The context here is, God's people are complaining that they don't have food and they're grumbling that they would

have more food if they were back in slavery in Egypt and God says to Moses and by extension to his people is my hand short like

do you really think I'm unable to provide you food? I'm able to provide you more food than you could ever eat.

My hand is not too short to help you. My hand is not too short to save you. And we know

that. So it's obvious and God provides food in Numbers Chapter 11 and provides quail for his people

more than they wanted even.

And yet I think about my life, guessing your life too. We sometimes start to think that God's hand is short.

We lack faith that God is able to do immeasurably more, Ephesians 3, 19 and 20, that all we could

ask or imagine that his hand is not too short to provide for his people, to provide everything we need, to lead

us and guide us, to draw people to himself. We see later in scripture his hand is not too short to

save. There is no one who is beyond the power of the gospel to save and yet we can sometimes when we're sharing the gospel with somebody

we can just start to think I just don't know if they'll ever come to Christ.

Like don't don't think that.

I believe that God has the power to save them and pray that God would show his power.

And your life and your struggles when you start to wonder.

I just don't know if I'll ever get the peace I'm looking for.

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