Daily Reflections

Mountains Will Tremble

January 16, 2025 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

That mountains would quake at your presence— just as fire kindles brushwood, and fire boils water. —Isaiah 64:1–2

At the beginning of Isaiah 64, we find several metaphors to describe the power of God’s manifest presence. First, it is likened to an earthquake that causes the mountains to shake, quiver, and tremble in fear. Then we’re given a picture of fire that kindles brushwood and causes water to boil. It’s forceful, powerful, and dangerous. It is not tame.

There’s nothing tame about God when you see Him moving in times of revival. Nothing stays the same when the presence of God comes down. You think of mountains as being strong, permanent, immovable. But in times of revival, those mountains tremble. They’re done away with completely.

These mountains might be peaks of sin, unbelief, or deeply entrenched wrong ways of thinking. They could be ridges of materialism and greed or injustice. They are things that we think will never move or change. But in the presence of God, those mountains will come crumbling down.

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A Cry for Revival (Isaiah 63–64): A Picture of Revival” (Revive Our Hearts series)

Scripture taken from The CSB 

Make it Personal

What are some “mountains” you don’t think will ever change? Pray for the presence of God to come and make them crumble.