Not Easy to Climb to the Mountaintop | Saturday, May 12, 2007
I have been to a very beautiful place in KZ which is known as the Lubugru Mountains (I don't know the correct spelling haha) and it was the local church who has invited me to join them. Though I don't know them really well, yet they have extended the invitation to me readily enough and I thank God for this warm-hearted invitation. I have enjoyed their cg and their church service and indeed the Glory of the Lord and His Presence is very strong in their midst and I enjoyed the church peoples' presence as they seem to enjoy mine too and for that I thank God for His opening doors and ministry for me. When I reached the mountains, I didn't know that I should have prepared my own food as I didn't bring my utensils and food with me. However, the youths over there have prepared my share and they have brought extra utensils for me to use and I thank God for their understanding and preparations as I did not feel embarrassed and then, one of the older man suggested to climb the nearby hilltop. I readily agreed as I wanted to see the beautiful scenary from the peak and so I decided to climb together with him together with the other youths. It was quite easy at first and the peak is still far off but the difficulty comes when I was having a lack of breath but I perservered on when I thought I saw the peak was near. I pushed on with all my might and climbed to the top and imagine my shock and surprise that the climb was not over but that the actual peak was actually hidden from my sight. At that time, I wanted to give up and began to give myself reasons so that I will give up my attempt to climb to the top and yet another voice seems to tell me that I can climb to the top of the mountain and so, I decided to perserver on and climbed on. However, when I reached the second peak and still saw another peak that was about 200 meters ahead, that is when I made up my mind that I don't want to attempt the climb as my lungs were bursting and my right leg was suffering a cramp. I sat down and waiting for the rest to catch up and then descend the hill together with them. Then I saw two young children wanted to climb the peak and though my body told me that it was done and over with and that I will be commiting untold abuses on it if I wanted to join them. However, I made up my mind and to my surprise, I still can walk normally and so I walked to the top and I saw a really beautiful sight at the peak of the hillside. I saw an eagle hovering high in the skies and the older man who has led the climb decided to pray for KZ with the youths and we had a marvellous time praying for God's glory and power and many blessings to pour over this land. It was just then that God revealed a spiritual truth to me that many times, it is not at the starting we fail but rather at the near of the finishing line. He showed us a mountain and told us to climb and at first, the journey is light and easy but imagine our shock and horror, when we thought we have reached the peak, that there was another hidden peak; one after the other until we decided to give up the climb and become satisfied and content with where we are or how far we have come rather than finishing the task which God has given to us. That is when we become satisfied with the second or third best rather than the very best that God can give it to us. All of us need encouragements from one another to help us to finish the race and if there is no one, we should look to the Lord. Just like Psalm 121:1-2 says, "I lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence did my help come? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heavens and earth and that should be our way of life also. We should always focus our eyes on Jesus the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who has set the course, finished the race and has sat down on the right hand of the Father. May that be my prayer and faith.
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