Running Tired

This past weekend Shane Rogers gave an incredible story that I wanted to share. He told of a story of when he was hiking with his newly born Caleb. He had Caleb in one of those backpack things... carrying him on his back. As he climbed the mountain, Shane began to get really tired and fatigued from trying to carry Caleb all the way up. Although his wife was trying to help relieve him, he was determined to make it all the way up the mountain. He struggled and struggled just trying to carry his son all the way up. His point of the story pointed towards our relationship with God. Many times we see our relationship with God like this.. we struggle just to keep God on our backs and fight to make it up... For some reason we have begun to believe that this is the way it is suppossed to be. We struggle to stay a child of God... we struggle to make right choices... we struggle to find hope... we struggle just to make it up.

Yet it should be the other way around. Think of the hike from Caleb's perspective. He had no worries. He just rested in knowing who he was. He knew he was Shane's son and knew that his dad was going to take care of him no matter what. This is more of what our relationship with our God should look like. We don't have to work to make it.... we are God's children no matter what. We just need to rest in His presence. I don't know about you, but it is easy for me to lose sight of just resting in God... living joyfully for His name. He gives me the strength to overcome... the joy to live life... the power over my self-control to make right choices. Stop running tired, but rather run resting in knowing who you are.

I love Bear from Man vs. Wild: