Dealing with Mountains

Motivation Monday: Dealing with Mountains

Profiling the topography of the expanse to cover on our journeys from where we are to where we are headed, not every point will be smooth sail. We may have to encounter the plains, the valleys, the rivers to cross, the mashy areas, the crooked ways, the rough roads, the hills and the mountains especially if the journey is planned to cover a large distance.
In construction of roads, the longitudinally dissected profile of the distance reveals every feature and it prepares the engineers towards what to encounter and how to solve the problems long before hand.

From the scriptures, we can deduce certain things that helped in dealing with the obstacles on our way. Let's take the mountain as a case study.

The mountains present to us insurmountable difficulties but within them are treasures. They are those hard nuts we must crack to bring us great fortunes and recognition.

Dealing with mountains successfully is an achievement in its own right. Many mountains are what others have tried to deal with without success and so have abandoned as impossible. Many have left the mountains and the treasures within for paths of lesser resistance thereby creating longer and more crooked paths as they try to avoid difficult situations. Many never arrive at success trying to avoid the difficulty mountains pose.

Dealing with mountains successfully creates ways for others to attain to their own greatness. It takes a pioneering spirit and a leadership resolve to take on mountains.

When Jesus Christ, our Lord was to teach faith with the cursing of the fig tree, He told His disciples that having faith don't just dry up barren trees but that it also moves mountains. That was to represent the extent of difficulty, mountains represent impossibilities.

But from what Jesus Christ said, faith is what deals with mountains. The ability to believe that there are no impossibilities against the power of God made available to us here on the earth.
The fact that when God prepared the universe, He puts all of His creations under the feet or under the authority of man. So here, man working with God is invincibility and omnipotence. Because all things have been put under man's feet and authority.

God said concerning Zerubabel in the book of Zechariah how the mountain would become a plain before him, how he would hold to the topmost of the stones of the mountain in accomplishment shouting grace, grace... He said concerning this, how it isn't going to be by physical power nor military might but by the Spirit of God...

It was the same with Caleb, who was promised a mountain when he was only 40 years old. When he became 80, he demanded that Joshua give the mountain to him to go conquer.

In His own case, the mountain was a stronghold of the enemies. He was to conquer the land and take over the possession. Dealing with enemies using a mountain as their stronghold is more difficult than dealing with enemies at same elevation.

These are situations we deal with daily as we journey towards our promised land. Our success depends on how we are able to handle those situations.

We can see that faith, believe, plays a big role in dealing with mountains. The ability to see the plain even while the mountain is still standing. What do you believe is possible? We can create mountains by our unbelieving perspectives to life. Whatever you see as impossible automatically becomes a mountain.

Mountains have ears, they hear and obey. I'm sure you find that curious. They are inanimate, how are they able to listen? Mountains were created by being called forth just as every other thing, so they hear. They came by obeying words commanded, so they obey.

So, learn to talk to the mountain, let it know what you want of it. It's waiting for you to give the command, and it's ready to obey. Tell that difficulty that it's going to go, tell the challenge that it won't last. Tell the examination that it won't stop you.

Then start taking the stones apart one by one, start doing what you can do towards removing or ploughing through the problem. Zerubabel was to eventually hold the cap stone but he won't start from there. He would have to move against the mountain from the ground but in faith and with the assurance that the mountain is gone before start.

Don't run away from mountains. They aren't as formidable as to think they won't either be moved or be made plain. We only need to believe that nothing is impossible. If it has come our way, then they have to make way. Then don't stop ploughing into it, soon you'll be holding the headstone, shouting grace, grace to it!

Have a great day, a wonderful week and an awesome month! Go take that mountain!