Just Push
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.
Since the man was showing signs of discouragement, the Adversary
decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's weary 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 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 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 is sinewy 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
moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves the 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.U.S.H - Pray Until Something Happens!!!!!
Given to me by a friend to share.