Ain't no mountain high enough

Posted by Wayne (Melbourne, Australia) on 25 March 2007 in Landscape & Rural.

Today the pastor in my church (Pastor Rob who is the Kids Pastor) was speaking on an incredibly deep level about very plain and often very overlooked passage in the bible...the feeding of the 4000...which comes after the feeding of the 5000...I used to get mixed up with that too =D

He basically demonstrated to us,after following basic investigatory techniques to determine the location of the event (a mountainous area characterized by its remoteness due to difficult terrain), that God's not looking for a bunch of people who want to just be feed all the time (He still does want to feed us, clothe us and bless us in every way imaginable and then some) but He's looking for a people who are willing to pay the price to get up on the mountain (a tough thing to do by any standards) to do something about whatever afflicts them and the people around them. See the context of the story...was that these people on the mountain ostensibly the 4000 men (which discounted the women and children present...which would more than double the 4000)...were by and large people who were crippled, blind or afflicted in some way or another or were people having the above category of people. You've got to climb a mountain.

You've got a limp in your life...climb a mountain. You've got a insurmountable obstacle in your life...climb a mountain.
You got needs...climb a mountain. Bottomline is...climb a mountain. It isn't all about getting feed just to fatten yourself up spiritually all the time...its also about the larger kingdom of God...and His people not just You.

Now I'm a bit of an outdoors freak myself but I'm not advocating physical mountain climbing here...I'm talking about making steps of faith. Believe and act in the furtherance of that belief...that as you step out in faith...God, as His Word says, pours back out to you hundred and thousand-fold...a pressed down, shaken and overflowing measure.

Surely...there ain't no mountain high enough to keep me away from His presence. =D I

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