"the mountains are mine"
- god
doesn't sometimes your walk with god feels like you are constantly going through the ups and downs? you climb to the mountain tops and you hit the deep valleys. maybe some of you are just cruising right now, your journey with jesus is filled with peace going down a gentle slope... or perhaps some of you feel like i am feeling right now, you are stuck climbing this mountain... you are exhausted... you want to give up... you just wish you can stop and rest... fall to your knees and just... breath... you feel overwhelmed by the height of this mountain... you feel you can never climb over it... it's impossible to conquer...
that is where i feel like i am right now. i'm tired, exhausted... and i don't understand why... why must things be so hard... so impossibly overwhelming... so here i am... falling on my knees... and i am gasping for air... as i am lying there gasping... i hear him whispering in my heart... "come to me, all who are weary and heavy-ladened, i will give you rest (matthew 11:28) which mountain can stand before me... which mountain we can't climb together... you will stumble and fall, but i am here to pick you up and carry you... these mountains are mine... and they can not hurt you... for i am with you and you also belong to me." so i look at these mountains... and they are no longer filled with despair... rather they are a gentle slope leading me home... leading me back to my savior. i'm getting up... holding the pierced hand of my savior as he leads me home down this gentle slope.
this is my prayer for all of us... that you will find yourselves completely hopeless... completely broken... and there you see your savior looking at you, smiling, and reaching down and picking you up.
one love,
jeff
