Anyone older than 40 remembers mom’s outstretched arm. You’d be riding in the front seat of the car (underage and without seatbelts) and she’d come to a screeching stop and her outstretched arm would fly across you and—WHOP! You wouldn’t hit the dashboard (hopefully). You might have whiplash but you’d been saved. God stretches out His arm to rescue you, too. He restrains you to rescue you.
How many times have you fallen into deep waters (literally or figuratively)? Did you cry out to God for help? We took the youth on a rafting trip a few years ago and we had a boy fall out of the raft and the river took him swiftly down the river. We were terrified! But when we got close, I think everyone on the raft had their arm extended to reach for him. God desires to pull you out of deep waters with His outstretched arm. He wants to help you.
Like Moses extending his arm with the rod of God to part the Red Sea and save the people from being killed by the Egyptians, God still raises His arm today. I’ve lifted my arms in faith and prayer and have seen God do the impossible. I’ve seen His outstretched arm heal a marriage, miraculously pay for three weddings, heal a girl of seizures, pay off debt, stop a bullet, bring home a prodigal—and so much more! God wants to do miracles for you, too.
God’s arm is outstretched toward you! He wants to restrain you to rescue you, reach out to help you, and do the miraculous and impossible. Jeremiah 32:17 says, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.”
Nothing. Absolutely nothing is too hard for God’s outstretched arm.
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