A man was sleeping one 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. 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 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 discouragement, 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 shiny 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 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.

And remember to PUSH:

P = Pray
U = Until
S = Something
H = Happens

–author unknown

6 Responses to Push

  1. Caren says:

    Indeed pushing should be the way of life Amen

  2. Pastor James Olalekan Adeleke says:

    This is awesome. God’s ways and thoughts are higher than ours. He will get the job done and give results if we obey.

  3. Paul Langford says:

    This has come at the perfect time for me, thank you so much for this as well as your service. Praise God for having you post it!

  4. Evangelene Thomas says:

    this was powerful ..So now I need to PUSH

    • John Geyer says:

      Ah, but with all due respect, that word was to another. Did God tell YOU to push?
      For some perhaps, allowing God’s strength to simply exist in us is not only sufficient, but the best idea for you, for now? Obedience to God is not following the revelation to another, but to seek His wisdom for our lives, whatever that entails!
      I say this, because there was clearly a time in my own life where the challenge was to STOP pushing and simply learn to RELAX. Once I finally did, peace began to reign and life flowed. We are all different, with different needs and in different seasons of growth. It is an individual walk.

  5. Byakatonda Nicholas says:

    oooohhhh
    thank you very much for your good news/messages to me/us forsure am going to
    PUSH MY ROCK

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