Just Push!
JUST PUSH!
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when
suddenly his room
filled
with light, and God 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.
So, 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 of his
might. Each night the
man
returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling
that his whole day
had
been spent in vain.
Since the man was showing discouragement, the
Adversary (Satan)
decided
to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the
weary mind: "you
have
been
pushing against that rock for a long time, and it
hasn't moved."
Thus,
giving
the man the impression that the task was
impossible and that he was
a
failure.
These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the
man. "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 is what he planned to do, until one day
he decided to make
it a
matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to
the Lord.
"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?"
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 of 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 sinewy and brown, your hands
are callused from
constant pressure, 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. Now I, My
friend, will now
move
the rock."
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 a
simple
obedience and faith in Him.
By all means, exercise the faith that moves
mountains, but know
that it
is still God who moves mountains.
When everything seems to go wrong ... just: P. U.
S. H. !
When the job gets you down ... just P. U. S. H. !
When people don't react the way you think they
should...just P. U.
S. H. !
When your money looks "gone" and the bills are
due...just P.U.S.H!
When people just don't understand you ...just
P.U.S.H.!
P= Pray
U= Until
S= Something
H= Happens
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution
is the distance
between my knees and the floor!
Pass this on to all the loved ones and friends who
may need it,
they may
get it just in time.
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