\u201cFor I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, \u201cDo not fear, I will help you.\u201d Isaiah 41:13 CSB
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God is holding our hand and telling us to not be afraid, He\u2019s going to help. Too often though, we underestimate Him. As I write this, I\u2019m sitting at the top of a mountain, literally. I\u2019m 26,265 ft up in the air, equivalent to a half mile. When I look around, all I see is mountaintops. The air is clear, the fog has lifted and I can hear the sounds of traffic from the valley below. Our scripture for this year is Matthew 17:20: \u201cHe replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (NIV). What God is saying in this verse is that if I have enough faith, I could make the mountains move around me. That seems impossible, but in reality, it\u2019s all about perspective.
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Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, tells us in Proverbs we are to \u201cstay on the safe path\u201d (Proverbs 4:26 NLT). The safe path is the one God leads you on, wherever it may be. The path isn\u2019t boring, it\u2019s the exact opposite, it is filled with mountains to climb and valleys to endure. As Mark Batterson loves to say, \u201cPlaying it safe is risky.\u201d Because I\u2019m following the path the Lord is leading me on, I\u2019m sitting on a mountaintop. Yesterday, as we climbed this mountain, my husband was so anxious he snapped at me, completely unlike him. His actions indicated to me how nervous he was. I prayed silently as we climbed the mountain, when the truck seemed to struggle, I prayed a little harder. I thought, Lord, this is a small mountain, if we can\u2019t do this, how are we going to do the rest of the trip? But God reminded me, He\u2019s the maker of the mountains, He\u2019s the leader of our path. Where God guides, He provides. He\u2019ll get us where He wants us to go, He\u2019ll move the mountains or carry us up them, either way, we\u2019ll get there. I had to be reminded to keep my eyes on Him and let Him lead the way.
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The reason we don\u2019t think God can move mountains is because we focus on the wrong thing. We have the wrong perspective. Instead of focusing on how big our God is, we focus on how big the mountain is we\u2019re trying to climb.\u00a0 We forget that God can move the mountains, climb the mountains, do whatever He wants with the mountains, because He created them. If He wants to move them, He will. More often though, He wants us to climb the mountain. He wants us to face our fears.\u00a0 He wants us to get to the top so we can overcome our fears and find the freedom He desires us to have. But we can\u2019t do it if we take our eyes off of Him, and forget He\u2019s holding our hand. He\u2019ll drag you to the top if He has to, but He\u2019ll get you there.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t give up and neither should we.
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