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From: The Mists of Avalon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted December 03, 2002 09:48 AM         

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Push with all your power
>
> 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, he gave the man the impression that the task
> was impossible and that he
> was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and
> disheartened the man. Satan
> said,
> "Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your time,
> giving just the minimum
> effort; and that will be good enough."
> That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided
> to make it a matter of
> prayer and to 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. True, 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. That you have done.
> Now I, my friend, will 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
> 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 is "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

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posted December 04, 2002 08:49 AM         

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posted December 04, 2002 09:42 AM         

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oh, my! that is just so meaningful and beautifully inspiring!
it makes me wanna
thanks a million, hopeful!

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