THE ROCK!
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room 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: "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 "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 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 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 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 simple
obedience and faith in Him....... By all means, exercise the faith that
move mountains, but it is still God who moves the mountains.
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