Thursday, July 12, 2007
I WILL MOVE THE ROCK
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filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man he
had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his
cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock
with all his might.
This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun
up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive
surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each
night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that
his whole day had been spent in vain.
Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, Satan
decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's mind
such as: "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time,
and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never
going to move it."
Thus giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and
that he was a failure, these thoughts discouraged and disheartened
the man even more. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll
just put in my time, giving just the minimum effort and that will be
good enough."
And that he planned to do until one day he decided to make it a
matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the God. "Lord,"
he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all
my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this
time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is
wrong? Why am I failing?"
To this the Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked
you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to
push against the rock with all your strength, which you have
done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move
it. Your task was to push. And now you come to me, with your
strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really
so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back
sinewed and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure,
and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you
have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to
have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be
obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My
wisdom. This you have done.
"I, my friend, will move the rock," says the Lord.
At times when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own
intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God wants is
just simple obedience and faith in Him...
"By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains; but it is
still God who moves the mountain."
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