This is something that has been milling around my mind for a long time. Stuck between a rock and a hard place is where people know what to do, but when it comes to decision-making and doing it - don't know which way to turn - because that 'rock' if I can call it that - follows them around wherever they go.  In my instance I've rebuked it, cursed it, done everything possible but stuck a piece of dynamite under it to blast it to bits, but it still reforms - and starts following me round again.  I've even had people pray over it, but it still don't work.  So I thought to myself, is there something missing here that I'm not catching on to?  Why is it - that no matter where I go, it still follows me around?  So scripture to focus on before I let rip into this message - which for some of you maybe hard to swallow.

Matthew 17:19-20 [NIV].  Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not drive it out?"

He replied, "Because you have so little faith.  I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you."

Although Jesus used a physical mountain as an illustration, I think He was talking about a mountain that was staring people in the face.  The one that's too hard, the one that's too difficult, and no matter how many people try to rebuke it, its still there.  And I could even say - the one that people think they can't get over.  So I don't know about you people who are reading this, but I've faced some pretty tough 'rocks' in my time, the ones that other people said I'd never be able to get over, but I've face them, challenged them - which has left other people thinking, how did he do it?  Was it my small faith that did it, or was it something much tougher, more thought-provoking that enabled me to do it?  Now that's got you thinking hasn't it?  After all - it does state , if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move, doesn't it?  And once that is done, nothing will be impossible for you.  Now let me start broadening-out this message.

The reason people have stuff going on in their life that is ripping them apart, that although rebuking it, cursing it, having prayers said over it till the cows come home - is because they haven't told that 'rock' where to go.  So it hangs around like a bad smell - and follows them around wherever they go - for the simple fact that they haven't told it where to go.  So being stuck between a rock and a hard place is a decision-making process, that although people like hanging onto their rock like some sort of comfort blanket - but rebuke it at the same time - pretending that it doesn't exist, that faith Jesus talked about must be followed through by an action of telling it where to go before it will move.  So if people aren't wised-up in the area of telling something where to go - then wondering why nothing is working because its still there, think about why those disciples asked that question, "Why could we not drive it out?"  Well it maybe a stupid way of looking at it as I write it, but one of the reasons could be that they were unable to drive it out because they were unable to tell it where to go, so it remained exactly where it was - going nowhere.  So to put that into modern-day langauge, it tormented them even more because it had nowhere to go.

Well I'm trying to simplify this message as best I can - because I know people don't like thinking about stuff which sends their brain into a cramp first thing in the morning.  But one of the reasons could be because people haven't told their 'rock' where to go, because with it having no direction whatsoever in which to go in - it stays put in people's lives, making their life a misery in the process.  So when people are so fed up with that rock hanging about all over the place like a bad smell - and wondering why nothing is working - but yet still have faith that it will work, has their faith ever been put under enough pressure to tell it where to go?   And delving into it deeper.  Has anybody told that rock where to go for it to not come back ever again?  If not, why not?  

Lastly.  Faith can move mountains, but you gotta tell that rock where to go before it will move.  And swinging back to my personal example as written above.  When people start telling me nothing can be done - and in the world's eyes its impossible to do, that's when I start moving mountains, and that's when I start telling them where to go.  So to put this message in a nutshell.  Mountains are there to be conquered, not admired.  It maybe beautiful in a picture post-card setting, but they're not as beautiful in real life when people have to face them.  And if people really think about it.  When you're at the top of your mountain in life - with all the scrapes and bruises you've acquired along the way, it can be pretty cold, isolated and alone can't it when you're up at the top?  Is that simple enough for everybody to tell their mountain where to go when they face an obstacle in life?  Here ends my message on between a rock and a hard place.  The hard place is doing something about it - that others say cannot be done.  And here's something to chew on as I wind this message up.  Enough days troubles are enough for one day.  So when it comes to mountains or rocks in life, don't take them on all at once because it'll kill you, not physically - but spiritually and emotionally, because more damage can be done trying to conquer them than overcome them.  There are too many casualities in life where people started off one way - but ended up another, because they tried to do it all at once - because they didn't take that time-out  - and that 'one day at a time' approach that was needed the most to enable them to get over it.  Does that makes sense?