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The Climb
by Lewis McNeely on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 11:05 am

I have just gotten back from lunch with our web guy Chris Cummings from http://www.integritywebdevelopment.com. We were discussing the launch of our new site along with eating some Antonios (Go TONY!). I was going to save half of my Manacotti for later but once again ate like a pig. This brings me into the main thing I want to share in this new blog we have here at lwfonline.

Have you seen climbers hooking into bolt anchors as they ascend a mountain?  Those anchors are metal rods driven into the rock to provide a safety point to tie into to assit them in case they fall. Sometimes when they do fall, some anchors come loose because of the torque placed on them. If they are fortunate, at least one anchor holds and keeps them from plunging to harm’s way.( ie... stony hard ground vs Soft semi- pliable human matter) Now imagine those anchors are characteristics of the Christian walk. One anchor represents self control, another a faithful prayer life and another personal organization and still another diligence and motivation. Now imagine gravity representing the things in our lives we are trying to avoid; slothfulness, carnality, sin and selfishness. As we climb we hammer our anchors into the rock and hope that when pressure or the trials in life come, that the anchors hold. Here the point: In this Analogy Man-made anchors will not hold you safely. Neither will façade anchors, that is guile or “pretending we have it all together” anchors. Even godly anchors that we placed in the past but haven’t checked their strength in a long while may come loose and drop us when we need them the most. The bottom line is found in the Psalm 127 verse 1: Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it. He alone is the anchor and he alone can build these characteristics in our lives. ( Warning: very honest truth alert) My life is more disorganized than I would like to admit, my prayer life is wanting and my diligence seems to wane as I grow older. Though I may have it together, so to speak, in some areas, the fact is in many ways my life is a mess that needs Jesus to take over and clean it up. The sooner we come to this realization, the sooner Jesus can get busy molding us into his image. Many times we place more value in appearing to “have it all together” than actually allowing Jesus to change our lives. I say let’s Him pull out the man-made anchors and allow them to fall to the ground. Then Jesus can take his anchors and build us a true and lasting path up this sometimes difficult mountain we call life. Well I better get back to 'cypering and such. That reminds me of Jethro Clampett who like our family goes through a lot of cereal and milk. We went through about 6 boxes in one month recently. Someone said to Kim because she is breatfeeding our little one that you do not have to drink milk to make milk. Duh, you do not have to drink snot to make snot. ;-) Gotta love the food police!

 

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