Isn't this a marvelous word? We look at this and see the great expectancy of God towards His people. He expects us to believe it and we do to some extent. Then comes the mountain in verse 7. We look at the mountain and forget the might and power of Gods Spirit working in our lives to change that mountain into a flat plain.
God told the man of God to shout GRACE,GRACE to the mountain. This is what God wants us to shout to all of our mountains! GRACE GRACE! Grace that is sufficient for all things! Grace that is sufficient to carry all of your problems, not just some of your problems, all of your problems! Grace, that if it is applied to your prayer life, you will see the plain instead of the mountain.
We have a bad habit of building mountains instead of removing them. I think of the city of Los Angeles and the mountains of garbage they try to blend in with the surroundings by covering it with dirt and landscaping with trees and shrubs so nothing really stands out as a trash dump. But it is still a mountain of trash. This is what we do with our lives. We build mountains of trash in our lives and try covering them them up so they blend in with our Christian life. What we need to do is start shouting GRACE to those mountains and get rid of them. Don't allow those mountains to spoil the view of Gods plain, level, smooth, uncluttered with trash, life.
Psalm 1:3 tells us to be like a tree planted by the waters that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaves never wither and whatever he does will prosper. You can't get good fruit by planting on a trash heap. It has to be planted in good soil with good water and good nutrition. All they retrieve from those trash dumps is methane gas and they burn it off.
What is your life built on? The last verse of Psalm 1 tells us the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the ungodly shall perish. Trash decomposes, decays, dies. You make the choice of living in a trash dump or an orchard. Isaiah 30:15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "Only in returning to Me and resting in Me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength. But you would have none of it. They wouldn't listen and wanted to stay in their trash dump but look at what our gracious God says in verse 18 ; So the LORD must wait for you to come to Him so He can show you His love and compassion. For the LORD is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for His help. He will wait for you to come out of the trash dump and learn to wait on Him where you will find out His grace is always sufficient.
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