"I look up to the mountains, does my help come from the mountains? No. My help comes from God, who made heaven and earth and the mountains" - For King & Country

"... who made Heaven and earth and the mountains"

I know as Christians, we pray for the mountains in our lives, to be cast out. When bad things happen, we run in fear to God asking for help and deliverance.

Sometimes those mountains are caused by our own disobedience, our own stubbornness to follow our own ways.

Yet other times, life, heartache, loss, disappointment hit us out of nowhere. Sometimes, it feels as if our whole world is crashing down.

So, what do we do?

I have seen so many people I love to be hurt and blindsided by the trials of this life. We've all been there, haven't we?

It's not wrong to go to God in prayer and ask that this problem, this heartache, this loss, this circumstance be removed from our lives.

We should always do this.

But what do you do when God makes that mountain, and make them- I do believe He does.

Why?

Why would a loving, merciful, all knowing, all powerful, all forgiving God create a mountain of ___ ( fill in the blank) towards a child He claims to love?

I believe, through trials I have experienced in my own life that it's to show us how much He loves us.

Crazy, I know, and sadly, for a lot of people, that answer won't sit well with many. That's okay. You don't have to agree.

I believe that I serve a God that is in control of

all things. All things in heaven, in the earth, in the sea, in the sky and everything in between.

I believe that sometimes God creates a mountain in my life, it is so that I can (hopefully) turn my eyes to Him.

Too many times we get caught up in the things of this world, the trials of this life, the pain, the disappointments that we forget about God.

Don't misunderstand. All those things, the pain, the confusion, the loss, all those emotions are real and they can completely take a toll, but our God is also real.

When things in life happen, and I forget that I serve a God who spoke this world into existence. I believe God creates a mountain to remind me, I can't but He can."

Think of the children of Israel. Under great oppression, plagues and an evil Pharaoh, literally everything against them: they had no choice but to look to God. Who else was going to deliver them? They surely couldn't deliver themselves. They knew this.

Yet in the midst of the oppression, their pain, being under the rule of Pharaoh, they forgot about their God. They forgot who they belonged to.

Yet how does that story end? God delivered them. He didn't fail. He allowed that mountain in their lives to show them, "You can't but I, the great I am, can."

He not only wanted to show the Egyptians how big and mighty He is, how He was the only way out, but He also wanted to show this to His chosen people, the Children of Israel.

So, today, let's be thankful for the mountains. Let's be thankful for the mountains we face, because we can't overcome that alone and guess what? We are not expected nor asked to. I know the God who can carry us over the mountain. I know the man who is waiting for His children on the top of the mountain.

That should be the focus, the goal, the desire. To be with Him.

Let us lay aside the things of this life, the hurt, the pain, the distractions, the failed attempts, the failed relationships. Let us take our eyes off the problem, the fear, the doubt, the pain and look only to Jesus.

As the song says: "Sometimes it takes a mountain, sometimes a troubled sea, sometimes it takes a desert, to get a hold of me, your Love is so much stronger than whatever troubles me sometimes it takes a mountain to trust you and believe."

Today, let's be thankful that our strength comes from God, who made heaven and earth and the mountains.

Let us be thankful that He is waiting for us at the top of the mountain, because we will get there. We will.