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    When Mountains Won't Move: How to Survive a Struggling Faith
    When Mountains Won't Move: How to Survive a Struggling Faith
    When Mountains Won't Move: How to Survive a Struggling Faith
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    When Mountains Won't Move: How to Survive a Struggling Faith

    By Jacob Hawk

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    Standing in the midst of majesty and might, Jesus said that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can look at the mountains in the distance, tell them to move, and they will (Matthew 17:20). But what happens when our faith is smaller than the smallest of all seeds? What happens when the mountains won't move? The purpose of this book is to equip and exhort Christians to survive the most difficult days of life, so that the mountains which won't move will move before them.

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    PublisherStart2Finish Books
    Release dateDec 16, 2014
    ISBN9781941972304
    When Mountains Won't Move: How to Survive a Struggling Faith

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      When Mountains Won't Move - Jacob Hawk

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      The Rockies of Faith

      The chocolate cigars have been packed with joy and delivered with love, ready to be lit by excited young parents. Balloons are swaying in the waiting room like banners in the breeze. Family is gathered. Cameras are charged. Phones are ready to be dialed. Everyone will soon know that new life has arrived.

      The double-doors open, and the hero in shining scrubs exits his medical castle. He pulls off his cap, sits down in the chair, and proceeds to fulfill the worst duty of his profession. He looks at this family of faith and tells them, I’m sorry, but the baby was stillborn. You won’t be taking him home today. You won’t be taking him home tomorrow. You won’t be taking him home at all. The baby will return to the dust from which it came.

      Chocolate cigars melt like the tears splashing on the floor.

      Balloons are popped by pins of agony.

      Shouts of anger and sadness echo through the halls.

      The gathered family now disperses to its own respective corner, searching for the words to say.

      Cameras aren’t used.

      Phones aren’t dialed.

      New life never arrived—only death, and right on schedule. The family of faith wonders why they should continue being faithful.

      * * *

      Middle-aged empty-nesters line their porch and driveway with American flags. They stand proud with other American parents who have graciously allowed their children to defend the freedoms of millions of Americans. They know their offspring face danger every day, but the fight is worth America’s cause.

      It’s 3:00 on a Saturday afternoon. Dad is sitting in his recliner, watching the pigskin cross the end zone. Mom is on the porch, reading the latest edition of the most popular magazine, drinking her coffee in the coolness of the autumn day.

      The phone rings in the kitchen. Naturally, dad doesn’t get up because it’s the fourth quarter, and that would break all laws of couch-potato etiquette. Mom puts down her magazine, runs into the kitchen with coffee in hand, and answers the phone on the fourth ring. How nice it would be to hear her son’s voice.

      It has been months now. A few emails were sent back and forth, but nothing substitutes the sound of I love you, Mom from the voice of your child.

      Mom doesn’t hear his voice.

      In fact, she won’t hear it again in this life—only in the life to come. Her son’s body is cruising at 32,000 feet, being transported back to the mainland, draped in the flag of honor.

      She will greet him one last time. But this time, he won’t respond. Instead of running to her with arms wide open, he will be carried to her with arms crossed over by fellow heroes who defend the stars and the stripes.

      Is faith really worth it?

      Is this the reward for believing in that which can’t be seen—the loss of life by one who had so much left to live?

      * * *

      A young woman sits at her desk, crunching numbers like a machine. She has been clocking in, clocking out, looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow known as the American dream. She earned the degree. She put in the time. She’s gained the experience. Now it’s her turn for the corner office, the intern who brings her coffee, and an occasional cruise on the corporate jet.

      Everyone in the office knows it’s that time of year again—promotion week. Each robot sits in its cubicle, waiting to receive its orders, and hopefully, the right to climb the next rung on the ladder.

      The sound of Bostonian dress shoes inch closer to the workspace. The boss is coming to award the promotion. The footsteps get closer.

      And closer.

      And closer.

      Is this the day she’s been waiting for?

      No.

      This is the day she has feared.

      The promotion is given to the lucky winner in the cubicle next to hers. Yes, the one without the master’s degree or the experience. The junior employee on staff. It’s the story of her life.

      Another missed promotion.

      Another missed opportunity.

      Another painful reminder that her work isn’t noticed, even though she works harder than anyone else on staff.

      How do you have faith when nothing pans out the way you planned?

      The bills can’t be paid.

      The children won’t obey.

      Your wife wants to leave you because you bring nothing worthwhile to the relationship.

      Your husband is like a kid in a candy store with other women because you can’t lose those nagging twenty pounds.

      The friends who said, Give me a call if I can help, don’t pick up the phone when you do.

      Your family, who is supposed to love you regardless of the reason, loves you if the reason coincides with their schedule.

      Do you get my drift?

      It’s all across the board. It might be as dreadful as a stillborn baby, or as painful as the rejection of friends and family. Life is full of challenges that cripple our faith, and

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