Mountain Climbing

Mountain Climbing

Fear is the deadliest thing to give into. There is never a moment in my life where fear has a place. Yet so often I bow to it and give into fear. Why doesn’t a hiker begin to climb a mountain. most of the time the hiker will tell you he is not scared he will die on the hike. Its because what if he begins the journey and can’t make it to the top. Life so much like that. Who wants to begin a journey in life and not complete it. Nobody.

Recovery is similar to mountain climbing. In fact its like climbing the steepest mountain. What is scary about this mountain is that there is truth in what fear is trying to tell me. Today I wake up at the bottom of the mountain. because daily I wake up at the bottom. I never ever fully reach the top and each day begins the new journey to a destination I can never reach. Painful memories creep in on this journey daily. There are reminders constantly everywhere of my sin and my old life of sin. Temptations on every corner. Temptations at every new level of the hike. There are the people who sometimes we are even hiking with who tell us we can’t make it. It is impossible and that nobody has ever climbed this mountain successfully. Yet each day I twirl my self out of this bed and thrust myself into this climb. Why? Because fear will not control my destiny. Fear will not prevent me from attempting what is impossible.

When fear is entertained depression and anxiety set in. I have seen fear steel to much of my journey and too many good lives.  Today I wake up and I am no longer living in fear of not making it to the the top of this mountain because I embrace my failure and know that my success in life is not based on climbing to the top of this mountain. My success in life is simply defined by my attempting to do so without fear or precaution.  We all have our mountain to climb we all have our journey to take and man I am so glad to be in this climb today and doing my journey with the people God gave me to do this with. 

This journey we take on a daily basis that we know we will never reach this end point is how Gods power is displayed the greatest. Its in the endurance of the circumstance and the love and grace we display in them that perplexes the world.  Get in the climb today!!! WE need more climbers!!!