"Turning a Mountain into a Molehill” 

By:   Pastor Milton Coats

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Zechariah 4:7 “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, Grace unto it”.

I know you’ve perhaps heard the expression “Making a mountain out of a molehill”.  The expression is used to describe someone who is overly dramatic or reactive.  Someone to which everything is a crisis or the sky is falling.  So, I encourage you today rather than turning molehills (small problems) into mountains, turn mountains (major issues) into molehills.

Here in Zechariah, the seventy years of Babylonian captivity is over and God’s people are back in their homeland.  Zerubbabel, who is a civic leader is faced with the mountain of rebuilding the temple which had been destroyed decades earlier.  The task of rebuilding the temple was before Zerubbabel as a great mountain.  God used the prophet Zechariah to encourage him.  God showed Zechariah a candlestick of gold with a bowl upon the top with seven lamps and seven pipes to the lamps.

There were two olive trees, one on the right side and one on the left.  When Zechariah asked the angel what were these, he replied this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel.  God wanted Zerubbabel to know the rebuilding of the temple was not gonna be by might nor by power, but by His Spirit.  Simply stated, it was not gonna be by human means, but by the enablement of His Spirit.  God assured Zerubbabel the great mountain would become a plain, a flat terrain, a molehill.  God assured Zerubbabel he would place the headstone which is the capstone.  The capstone is the top stone of the temple which symbolizes the completion of the temple’s construction.

What daunting task or mountain are you up against?  With God’s help, all mountains can be turned into molehills.  Luke 1:37 says “For with God nothing shall be impossible”.  So, let’s stop telling God how big our mountains are and start telling your mountains how big your God is!  In Jeremiah 32:27, God asked the question “is there anything too hard for me”?  Child of God, the answer to that question is a resounding NO!