Every Mama would face a mountain of some sort —
Might be a mountain load of laundry, or a mountain heap of guilt and shame.
Mountains are mountains, and mountains always need moving.
Years ago we sang along with Tommy, hummed along his famous line: “I’ll be Your Everything” .
Somewhere deep within, we hope to be somebody’s everything, solve everybody’s something. We crave to be needed and deeply wanted, but Tommy ended the song of his life with a thousand broken pieces of his heart.
He was crushed by the mountains of pain that threaten us the same.
Every day there are Tommies dying everywhere — dying under the crushing mountains of problems that always require the mouths to move.
Mountains always need mouths to move.
Lyrics can shape the thought, but only the Word alters the hearts.
Turns out that we’re called to this habit of rising – rising to the occasion when the pressure mounts and the challenge deepens.
We can either bow to the mountains of problems in our world, or believe in the might of the problem-solver of the Word.
Because every victory begins with taking up the weapon of the Word in our mouth.
It’s what we say to our mountains that determines our ascend or descend.
And when life’s full of these raw, rugged mountains, we can whisper it soft:
“I am a new creation – the past can’t touch me.”
“I am absolutely redeemed – the world can’t own me.”
“I am altogether forgiven – fear can’t grab me.”
Confession precedes possession –
So it really doesn’t matter what people say about us, as long as we are clear on what God says about us.
Because the way we feel isn’t the right barometer to how things really are and the way others size us is not the same the way He sees and loves us.
Our confession moves every mountain when we declare to the world what the Word says despite our situation and in spite of our emotions.
He is our El Shaddai, our Provider, our Sustainer, our All-Sufficient One.
He promises to be our weight-bearer, our ever-present shield, our everlasting arm.
The only way to rise to the mountains of impossibilities is to lift our face to One that stands higher above every mountain.
The way to gain victory is to anchor yourself to the One who is always victorious.
We don’t always know how to figure our way out of the mountains.
We may not know how to fix, tweak or turn things, yet we can still confess:
That in Christ, no voices can condemn you, no judgments can undermine you, no previous mistakes can undo what Christ has done in and for you.
We can listen long enough to the problems we see in us and forget the depth of reality of who He has made us to be:
Today the mountains are stirring at the whisper of His words.
And His peace is descending…