Moving Mountains

I was in the mountains this last weekend. I had a relatively busy week with a lot of stuff going on. It was the usual stuff; homework, classes, work…etc. I needed to recharge.

If I am being completely honest, there was a specific part I was looking to recharge. I was looking for something that had gone since my move. I noticed after my move that I struggled with some serious insecurities in myself. I also struggled with finding my voice when I knew things to be true. I had in a way lost some of my confidence.

I went to the mountains and stood next to a mountain. I looked at it. I stared at it. I wondered how many top rope climbs it held, and how impressive it must have been to see it form (when God created it), and how magnificent it was. There was brief moment of humility for me as I thought about the mustard seed faith, and it being able to move mountains. I had heard that in the past but never thought about it next to a mountain. I wish I had such faith. I wish I could make mountains literally move.

When I sat next to the mountain I also started to see how small I really was. How big this mountain was compared to me. Life is like that is it not? We see the mountain so often as this defeating and imposing mass that is unable to physically move because we feel too small or too insignificant or too unable to do it on our own. If you are anything like me you probably think to yourself something like “how can faith move that mountain?”. I think I figured it out this weekend. It is not faith in the moving of the mountain that can cause faith like a mustard seed to move mountains. It is faith in the Creator of the mountain that can cause faith like a mustard seed to move mountains. I am not sure anyone has ever made a physical mountain move, but I believe that hypothetical mountains are being moved every day.

Take a moment to examine this thought for yourself. Do you have enough faith in the God that created the mountains, to move the mountains in your life that are making you feel insignificant? I pray and hope I do. I encourage you to explore in prayer, thought, and meditation this idea of moving mountains in a hypothetical sense.
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Food for thought: If the mountains are as big as they are, and I felt so small next to them. Imagine what it will be like to stand in front of God someday. I think the mountains were big! WOW! How much greater is the CREATOR of the mountains. If God be for us, who can stand against us? No mountain will be able to.

My confidence cannot lie in the things I have done; rather, it should rely in the things Christ has done through me. He moves the mountains, not me.