AT the word of Jesus the fig tree had withered away. Peter wondered at the power that had done this. But nothing was too great for the power of God, and so Jesus said to them, “Have faith in God.”
This faith is the faith that counts upon God in connection with difficulties. If you have some work or some difficulty, too great for human power and wisdom, and have faith to count upon God to undertake for you, you will succeed, even though it be as great as casting a mountain into the sea. God created the mountains, and He is able to remove a mountain. And so it is as to difficulties. There is no difficulty too great for God to remove. If you have difficulties too great for your own power, and have the faith to have God undertake for you, the difficulty will soon go. There is nothing too hard for the Lord. And if we have Him with us, there will be no difficulty too great for us to meet.
In the days of Elisha, there was a great famine in Samaria because the king of Syria besieged it. So great was the scarcity that the head of an ass was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and poor people were perishing within the walls of the city. While this was going on, Elisha said one day to a servant of the king,
“Tomorrow, about this time, shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.” The man could not see how this could be, and did not believe it. Even if the Lord should make windows in heaven, he did not see how it could be. But God brought it to pass according to the word of His prophet.
The great Syrian army had abundance of provision just outside the city of Samaria. And in the night God made the Syrian host “to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, the noise of a great host,” which filled them with fear, so that they fled in great haste, leaving all their provisions behind.
Four hungry lepers went out to the Syrian camp, and found that the Syrians were gone, and brought to Samaria the good news, and the people went out of the city and brought in a great spoil from the Syrian camp. Thus the words of the prophet were fulfilled. What seemed a human impossibility, God brought to pass in a very simple way. Nothing is impossible with God; and if we have the faith that brings Him into our difficulties, even though they are like mountains, our mountain-difficulties will be cast into the sea and disappear.
ML 03/08/1903