I invite you to take a journey of biblical exploration with me. It would be hard to find a bigger promise (or a more unlikely one) than the one in our text.
Mountain mover meaning series#
We’re in a series called Big Promises: God Says You Are, You Have, You Can, You Will. But at least the child took Jesus seriously, which is more than most of us do. The father immediately cautioned his son against tempting the Lord. As a friend of mine was discussing this promise with his young son, the boy started looking around for things he could order to start moving, like a lamp or a bed or a couch. What are we to do with this text? O ur first inclination is to explain it away somehow. To go one step further, I’ve never thought to myself, “I wish I could cast that mountain into the sea.”īut it’s right there in black and white in Mark 11:23. As I think about it, I don’t know anyone who has. Not only have I never seen a mountain cast into the sea, I’ve never talked to a mountain either. Jesus invites us to talk to a mountain and command it to be cast into the sea. That’s precisely our problem with this text. I’ve never seen a mountain cast into the sea But I’ve never seen a mountain cast into the sea. I’ve been amazed more than once and left speechless many times. I took a ride on the Big Shot at the top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, some 900 feet above the desert floor. I walked on a frozen lake at the Winter Palace in Beijing. I rode in a tiny rowboat to the lip of Iguassu Falls in South America. I’ve ridden a boat on the Sea of Galilee, climbed to the top of Horn Peak in Colorado, floated down the Volga River, climbed a Mayan pyramid in Belize, and visited the salt palace outside Bogota, Colombia. I’ve done my share of traveling, have visited every state in America, and have been to some amazing places. When Jesus talks about a mountain being cast into the sea, should we take him seriously? I have never seen a mountain cast into the sea. We all have the same question when we read these words: “If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.” (Mark 11:23).
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