Friday, March 7, 2025
Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for—believe that you have received it and it will be yours. Mark 11:23-24
Mountains and The Mountain Mover
Faith is essential for our prayer life. If we don’t have faith in God why would we pray to him? Jesus tells the disciples that if they have faith to believe that God can actually move a mountain it can happen. Do we believe that God can actually move a mountain. We do but we have some reservation because we have never seen a literal mountain move before our eyes.
Jesus was talking literally but also figuratively. He was making a point and used something so radical to prove that point – that God can do anything we ask and if we believe hard enough it will happen. Does that happen with everything we pray about? No because God is all powerful, but he is also all knowing. He plans every minute of our lives and knows what is the very best for us. He will always answer with his very best for us, but it won’t always be what we asked for. Even when we don’t understand, we can trust him and know that the answer he gives us is because he loves us.
Mountains are magnificent and awe-inspiring. But they can also be terrifying as they loom before us. We all have some very big figurative mountains in our lives. They can come as obstacles, opposition, sickness, death, difficulty, impossibility, and insurmountable and hopeless situations. We have mountains that hinder us from getting to God’s very best for us because we don’t risk climbing the mountain to get to the other side. We have mountains that seem to keep us stuck in the valley. We have mountains that keep us stuck out of fear and may keep us from being obedient to God’s call on our lives. God can move all these mountains if we have faith and believe that he can do it. We also have to believe enough to surrender it and lay it down at his feet instead of trying to find a way around or over ourselves. We need his power, and we have that power as his children if we only believe – and ask. Sometimes we don’t even believe enough to ask him for it.
What mountain is looming in front of you keeping you stuck or keeping you from God’s very best for you?
What mountain is keeping you from being obedient to God’s call on your life?
God is bigger than any mountain that is before you. Have faith in his power and authority over all the mountains. Believe in him, let go, and let God do what only he can do.
