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We did one of my first one-way hikes in Arkansas, on the Buffalo River. It was supposed to be 27 miles along a river basin with beautiful scenery on all sides. What I got was major elevation shifts of over a thousand feet in some areas; long, long uphill slogs with endless humidity and ticks on every part of my body. They didn't tell us at the ranger station that the terrain was so hilly. We ran out of water within an hour and found ourselves lusting after potholes and puddles for drinkable water. We even mooched off a set of hikers we met on the trail.
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To my shame I have to admit that these other two hikers were carrying their own loads and hiking up some of the most challenging hills I had hiked in my 25 years of carrying a pack. They were pulling their weight, albeit [url=http://www.jordanpascherofficiele.com]air jordan[/url] with much protest. My shame comes when I have to fess up that the other hikers were my 8 and 10 [url=http://www.moncleroutletosterblade.com]moncler outlet[/url] year old sons.
I am ashamed to admit that the wall I hit was not the physical test of the hills we climbed up and down and up and down, but the weakness in two little boys who were already exceeding anything I could have done at their age, or for pretty much any age.
I talk frequently [url=http://www.lcdmo.com/hollister.php]hollister france[/url] with my clients about pushing the outside edge of the envelope of their comfort zone to limits beyond their imagination. On this day, on this trail, I got my own envelope pushed. And it revealed a ‘me' I wasn't proud of. I wonder sometimes if God might not do the same to us. He lets us sit in our sin or our struggle way past the point where we think He should intervene. He wants us to learn to trust him in the process. But instead of trusting, we get angry and negative and resentful.
I am much bothered by a gospel I hear preached far too frequently in our Christian subculture these days. It is one that has at its heart the message "God exists to make your life better". He needs to fill our praise more. He needs to make our spiritual life more fulfilling. He [url=http://www.gotprintsigns.com/abercrombiepascher/‎]abercrombie pas cher[/url] needs to hear and answer our prayers, and we expect big things from him in faith. He WILL bless our lives and give us only good things, and He wants to expand our territory (for his glory, of course).
I wonder sometimes if maybe [url=http://www.jeremyparendt.com/Barbour-Paris.php]barbour pas cher soldes[/url] he just wants to be God without us telling him how he should do his job. I wonder sometimes, if we will follow when the path leads up and up, without water and with far too many ticks and way too much unbearable humidity. Will we take his path, even when it leads to misery? [url=http://www.sandvikfw.net/shopuk.php]hollister outlet sale[/url] I found that the only difference in me and the boys was that I had the maturity to push myself and challenge my desire to have my pain removed immediately. But I was just as whiney and complaining [url=http://www.gotprintsigns.com/abercrombiepascher/‎]abercrombie soldes[/url] on the inside.
So I ask the simple question "Does the way we hike and the attitude we bear in the journey reflect his glory, or ours?" And if the answer is, when all is boiled down, that we are really all about ourselves, then I ask "What are we going to do about it?" Whining about the way doesn't have to be the [url=http://www.lcdmo.com/hollister.php]hollister pas cher[/url] only way. Pick up the call to Christ likeness and put it in your pack, and learn to walk with it daily, regardless of the cost.
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