Nov. 25
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
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?