Using All Our Strength

In the book No Less Than Greatness by Mary Manin Morrissey, my book for May, the story is told of a boy and his father who were out walking when they came across a large stone. The boy said to his father, "Do you think if I use all my strength, I can move this rock?" His father answered, "If you use all your strength, I am sure you can do it."

The boy began to push the rock. Exerting himself as much as he could, he pushed until sweat poured off his forehead, but the rock did not budge. Discouraged, the boy told his father, "You were wrong. I can't do it."

The father placed his arm around the boy's shoulder and said, "No, son, I was not wrong. You didn't use all your strength.

You didn't ask me for help."

What's going on today? What rocks are we trying to move ourselves? We can, of course, keep struggling. God will not fight us for it, whatever it is. Sometimes it seems like we get Spirit involved as a last resort. But remember the children's song (which really should be the adult's song...) "oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer."

That's everything--health, wealth, relationships. Everything.