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!!!!!