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“But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.” 

—Luke 24:21

This was said by the men on the road to Emmaus after Jesus’s resurrection, but before it was publicly known. 

These men were disheartened. Jesus had said he would rise after three days, but here they were, three days later. They had believed in Jesus, but it looked like they were wrong.

It was too late. God hadn’t come through.

So many notable stories in the Bible had an “it’s too late” moment—Abraham and Sarah, Moses, Joseph, Ruth, Zechariah and Elizabeth. 

“Is anything too difficult for the Lord?” God asks of Abraham in Genesis 18:14. He says it again in Jeremiah 32:27, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me?”

And Jesus says in Matthew 19:26, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Even Job says, “I know that you can do all things, and that no plan is impossible for you” (Job 42:2).

When we feel like it’s too late for something in our lives, this teaches us to hold on to God, his goodness, his power, and his sovereignty. If it’s in his will and purpose and we are following him, he will make it happen, even if it’s beyond the realm of all human possibility.

The “it’s too late” is where our faith either becomes real or fades away into disappointment and bitterness. Faith that only believes it’s possible when we can see the way ourselves is faith in a small god.

We serve a big God whose plans will not be thwarted. Nothing is too difficult for him.

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