Obstacles

Life is full of obstacles. A lot of obstacles. There are big and small ones, although they all seem big when they happen. There’s the obstacle of losing a loved one and coping with that loss and then there’s the obstacle of just trying to be yourself while trying to fit in. There’s the obstacle of getting caught up in things of the flesh and then there’s the obstacle of getting caught up in a juvenile game to try to win over a gorgeous girl (if you can’t tell this happened to me recently). Each and every obstacle despite how big or small seems is important. I must confess that I have baited you my reader until this point, because there’s a reason I refer only to these as obstacles. Imagine that your entire life is like an obstacle course. Now I don’t mean an obstacle course like in Indiana Jones, where one wrong turn could be your imminent death. Instead I mean an obstacle course that is set up with one thing in mind, to make you stronger. You see obstacle courses aren’t meant to kill us or harm us in anyway; they are meant to inspire and cause us to discover things that we had never discovered before. We can take on all the obstacles in life that are thrown our way because they aren’t meant to make us stronger. However, we can’t be completely successful all the time or we would never learn. Sometimes you have to slip and fall in the mud or be unable to scale the wooden wall, so that you can reassess your approach. Maybe there is an easier way to climb that wall or maybe if you tried slowing down a little bit in the mud pit you might be able to stay on your feet. The good news today is that unlike earthly strength which you have to build up over months, and years of sweating and toiling, strength from God is given plentifully and He has given us more then we need and far more than we could ever achieve on our own. In 2 Samuel 22:33 it says “It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.” We cannot aspire to be perfect on our own because we have all learned through years of failure that it is not possible, but through God we can be made perfect. Through Him, We, the weak, are made strong. Glory be to God. Amen.