Nov. 25
MOUNTAINS TURNED TO PLAINS
"Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with
shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it" Zech. 4:7
At this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity, may
be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through it,
or round it. Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain
disappears and becomes a plain. But faith must first hear the word of
the Lord -- "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the
Lord of hosts." This grand truth is a prime necessity for meeting the
insurmountable trials of life.
I see that I can do nothing, and that all reliance on man is
vanity. "Not by might." I see that no visible means can be relied on,
but the force is in the invisible Spirit. God alone must work, and men
and means must be nothing accounted of. If it be so, that the Almighty
God takes up the concerns of His people, then great mountains are
nothing. He can remove worlds as boys toss balls about, or drive them
with their foot. This power He can lend to me. If the Lord bids me
move an Alp I can do it through His name. It may be a great mountain,
but even before my feebleness it shall become a plain; for the Lord
hath said it. What can I be afraid of with God on my side?