Made To Move MountainsSample

Day 1 

Mountains in Our Path

What kind of path are you on in life? What is the view behind you, and what does the road ahead look like? Likely, there’s a mountain or two in sight. 

What kind of mountain are you facing? Is it a crazy, afraid-to-say-it-aloud, God-sized dream? Or are you staring down an uncertain, scary obstacle that showed up on your path and you don’t even know where to begin? 

God moves some mountains miraculously. We stare down the impossible, and it stares right back at us. Then God casts it into the sea and makes a way where there wasn’t one. And some mountains God does not move. They are in front of us—blocking our paths, obscuring our views, wearing us out. These mountains were created for us to climb.

Life is full of twists and turns, setbacks and successes. Every one of them will lead us back to Jesus if we let them. Whether we are on the mountaintop or in a low valley, God uses what we endure to draw us closer to him.

Maybe you are like me, and today you face both kinds of mountains: a beautiful journey you want to take and a broken one that you don’t. While they are different challenges, I’m taking the same approach to both kinds of impossibilities. I’m starting with my heart.

Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Long before we take the first step, we make a decision in our hearts. It’s the birthplace of dreams and determination. God sees our motives long before we confess them, but it’s critical to examine our motivation for climbing. Do we long to conquer mountains for our own glory, recognition, and success, or do we desire the impossible because it will glorify God?

The God who led us to the foot of the mountain is the same God who will lead us over it. 

What do you want to have happen to the mountain you face today? Why do you think God led you to it?