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Psalm 90:2 ERV You were God before the mountains were born, before the earth and the world were made. You have always been and will always be God!

When I think of mountains prompting worship of my Good God or needing moving from my life, I picture the mountains on my family farm. Mountains who’ve seen generations of a family trusting God in the happy and the hard by plowing, planting, and picking faith when it made sense and when it didn’t. Mountains softened by time and grace reflecting the hearts of those living on them and their prayers for their neighbors and other family members going day from day without hope.

You might not have literal mountains on a family farm to point back at and remember God’s goodness poured out on you. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t have memorial stones of stories or Scripture to hold out and up in worship to our Good God. Those memories and meaning in Bible verses of how He brought you up and over mountains or laid them flat before you are your evidence of faith at work in and through you. They can remind you that now is always the right time to call upon our Good God to show Himself as the Long-Suffering One Who doesn’t turn, leave, or change, no matter how long it’s been since you’ve called upon Him or known the smoke of His Presence in your life. David captured these thoughts with the following verses – Psalm 125:2 MSG Those who trust in God are like Zion Mountain: Nothing can move it, a rock-solid mountain you can always depend on. Mountains encircle Jerusalem, and God encircles his people— always has and always will and Psalm 144:5 NASB Bend down Your heavens, Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Neither that mountain in front of you, high in pain, grief, or loss nor that mountain inside of you, huge in stress, doubt, or fear can stand before the Presence, Permanence, and Power of the One Who is our Rock and Strong Tower, for today and forever. Only God can make mountains like those to smoke with His Presence as He leads you through them to take faith and hope from Him to others in need of the same. Isaiah 52:7 ESV says it best – How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

Our Good God does reign on the mountains and in the valleys and everywhere in between. He reigns in and over the losses and the lost. He is with and for the hurting and the helpless. He is with us in passion, perseverance, and whatever pit we have dug for ourselves (see Psalm 40:2). There is nowhere He isn’t. And nowhere includes the pain that just won’t loose and the grief that just won’t go away. Nowhere includes the people who don’t understand, the places that bring tears, and the decrees and diagnoses which don’t end, no matter how hard you’ve prayed or tried to believe.

Our God is bigger than any and every mountain.

He is with you now.

He is with us always.

Please take a minute to share with us a Scripture or a story in the comments section of how God moved a mountain from in front of you. We all need the encouragement of memorial stones like these to help us keep climbing in faith and trusting our Good God in the todays and tomorrows full of steep challenges.

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Written by and copyrighted to Beth Madison, Ph.D., 2023.