A trio of mountain bikers took off in 2012 to find the highest mountains in the world to ride their bikes.
Were they crazy, or what?
They started in Utah, which has some of the best dirt trails in North America. It was their home base, and had been for years. They packed their bikes to the top for the thrill of the speed as they came down. Yet, one day they showed up to ride, and it felt ordinary. Fifty, sixty miles-per-hour, with jumps that left nothing between them and the ground but air…and it felt ordinary.
These men wanted something bigger, something grander, a place that had never seen a mountain bike before. These three amigos wanted it all.
They traveled to China and South America, climbing until the air was so thin they could barely breathe, and then to the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, where helicopters took them even higher. Every trip was filled with new thrills. Yet, at the end of their journeys, they found themselves back where they started, in the high mountains of Utah.
Isaiah 43:19 tells us:
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
We don’t need to travel the world to find something new. God is bringing it to us. It’s up to us to be prepared and ever watchful, so that God’s new thing doesn’t pass us by.
Psalm 127:3 tells us:
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
What a delight we can find in our children! Rather than view them as a hindrance to our joy, let’s see them as the source of our happiness. God views us the same way. Even when we encumber him, he finds his delight in us.
John 1:1-5 tells us:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
We can head to the mountaintops, and we will find excitement there. However, those three mountain bikers found a new joy in their Utah mountains after traveling the world. They saw it with fresh eyes, and it became theirs again.
There are times we want to be on the mountaintop, yet we don’t consider what we’re leaving behind. When we’ve finished with our mountaintop experience, let’s not forget that the place we left is just behind us, and that’s where our joy needs to be found.
When we come off the mountain, the love of God carries us home.
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