Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 97 verse 5:
“The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.”
Reflecting upon the Scripture that says God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, St Augustine said that the same sun which hardens clay also melts wax. For it is the same sun’s rays; yet the properties within its object which determine the response. So too it is with persons and their response to God.
This morning speaks of a mighty mountain melting like wax before the presence of the LORD. A mountain looks strong and impregnable and absolutely unmoveable. Yet we cannot see the properties within — what is happening beneath the surface of the rock, how soft and how vulnerable and how ready to fall it all may really be.
Jesus said the faith of a tiny mustard seed can move a mountain. It doesn’t take much to move a mountain when on the inside God has been melting it for about a million years.
And then someone comes along and says, “Move,” and it moves. “Melt,” and it melts. “Repent, and change, and fall in love, and surrender, and humble thyself by crumbling into pieces if you have to,” and lo and behold it actually happens.
At the presence of the LORD it actually happens.
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