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.
