Making the Climb
Saturday 08 December 2007 at 12:48 pm I had a great day at Raleigh North today. It started out with some of us cleaning the Computer Lab and Center. A lot of clutter had gathered up so we sorted, organized and cleaned.After we had finished that I went a visited with Derik and shared with him about how God grows through trails. From there I journeyed to Toya’s and spent some time playing with my girls and talking with Robert and Toya. My final stop was at the Tracy’s and Ella. Tracy and I went out and got some coffee and had a great talk. I started sharing with Tracy about how the Christian walk was like Mt. Everest.
I said the world looks at Mt. Everest from a distance or in pictures and talk about the majesty of the Mountain. Christians get to the foot of the mountain. That’s an easy step to sit at the foot of the mountain and rest in its shadow. But growing Christians aren’t satisfied hanging out at the foot so they put on a pack and get the necessary equipment needed to climb the mountain. Nobody really climbs alone. We assemble a team. Someone specializes in first aide, another in high altitude cooking, another can read the weather. We sill have to work as a team to help each other and become as one if we ever want to reach the top. It can’t be climbed in one day though, so we climb to a point and set up camp. Some Christians are satisfied with reaching that plateau so they stay at camp the rest of their lives. Other Christians just can’t help themselves so they keep climbing. Each climb get harder. It gets steeper so we have to lighten our load to make it. We set aside personal comforts and besetting sins in order to make the climb. The higher we climb the harder it gets and the fewer people keep climbing. The wind blows harder, the mountain get steeper, and the temperature get colder, yet we keep climbing because we feel the call to reach the top of the mountain.
I thank the Lord for fellow climbers and let me encourage you all to keep climbing.
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