Living in the land of the "frontier spirit" we as a people pride ourselves in our ability to overcome adversity. We gut it up. We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. We stand tall in our own power. We have that pioneer spirit of do or die and we are proud of being proud, if that makes any sense.
But when I read this verse in Zechariah it becomes evident that the Kingdom of God has little to do with human effort and more to do with us being obedient to flow in God's Spirit.
You remember in the beginning when the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the deep and God said "Let there be" and there was? That is and was the same Spirit of God Zerubbabel was encouraged by, the Spirit, the breath of God to do an impossible task of rebuilding the Temple. With opposition from the outside and apathy from the inside, this man was told that MIGHT...the might of armies, POWER...the power of individual human effort would not accomplish the task. Instead, help would come from the SPIRIT of GOD who breathed and the waters stood in a heap before all Israel. Help would come from the ONE who set the stage for all of creation to move from the unseen into the seen.
Like Zerubbabel, I find myself facing the Word of the Lord in my life to do this or that and I say to myself, "How will I do this? I do not have the strength, the quickness, the aptitude to do this God!" But God asks of us to step into His Kingdom life and walk away from the meager help of an army type of strength or the insipid boot strap pulling power and walk in the way of the SPIRIT.
Impossible tasks call for the God of the Impossible, and if you think about it, even those things we think we can accomplish apart from His Spirit are still impossible without him. Like the Pevensies who stepped from the world of the seen into the world of the unseen-Narnia and found adventure, let us find adventure in walking with the Spirit of God.
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