PUSH!!!!!!

P.U.S.H.


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 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 in to the man's weary mind:

"You have been pushing against that rock
for a long time, and it hasn't moved."
Thus, giving the man the impression that the task was possible
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 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 it really so?
Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled,
your back sinewy and
brown, your hands are all callused from constant pressure, your legs have
become massive and hard. Through your opposition you have grown much, and
your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't
moved 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 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 people don't understand you...just
P.U.S.H.!

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