Re: [MOL] Fwd: P.U.S.H.

[Joicy <joicy@erols.com>]

Wonderful, Charlotte, thanks! Love and prayers, Joicy

> From: CPKays@webtv.net (Charlotte Kays)
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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:26:25 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: [MOL] Fwd: P.U.S.H.
> 
> 
> From: GraceAStokes@cs.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:33 PM
> To: cpkays@webtv.net
> Subject: P.U.S.H.
> 
> P.U.S.H.!
> 
> A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with
> light and the Savior 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.
> This the man did, day after day.
> 
> For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely
> against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock,  pushing with all his
> might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore, and worn out, feeling
> that his whole day had been spent in vain.
> 
> Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, the Adversary
> decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's weary mind:
> "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't
> budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to
> move it." Thus giving the man the impression that the task was
> impossible  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 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 that really
> so?"
> 
> "Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewy and
> brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your  legs have
> become massive and hard. Through opposition you have grown much and your
> abilities now surpass that which you used to have.
> Yet you haven't  moved the rock.  But your calling was to be obedient and to
> push and to
> exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done. I, my friend,
> will now move 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 the mountains.
> 
> For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
> salvation to everyone that believes... Romans 1:16
> 
> 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 your money looks funny and the bills are due, just P.U.S.H.!
> When you want to curse them out for whatever the reason,just P.U.S.H.!
> When people just don't understand you, Just P.U.S.H.!
> 
> P.U.S.H. = Pray Until Something Happens!!!!!
> 

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