I’ve been on a number of mountaintops in my time, and I can tell you
that not much grows up there. The summits of mountains are bare rock and
lichen. That’s not where you would normally find an abundance of grain.
But Solomon, who wrote Psalm 72, asked God for “an abundance of grain .
. . on the top of the mountains,” to characterize his reign as king. If grain
on the mountain is so unusual, what is Solomon suggesting? That God’s power can
produce results in even the most unpromising soil?
Perhaps you think of yourself as a little person, with very little to
bring to the kingdom. Take courage: God can produce an abundant harvest through
you. This is one of the ironies of faith: God uses the insignificant to
accomplish the great. Not many of us are wise or noble; most of us are
anonymous and far from extraordinary. Yet all of us can be used. And contrary
to what we might think, it is because of our weakness that we can be used by
God (1 Cor. 1:27-29; 2 Cor. 12:10).
It’s possible to be too big or proud for God to use, but we can never be
too little. “Out of weakness” we are “made strong” (Heb. 11:34). By God’s great
power, we can do all that He has called us to do.
To experience God’s power, we must first admit that we are weak. (RBC)
