April 15, 2025

We’ve all been faced with challenges or paths that we don’t want to take. Sometimes the challenges are relatively small, like having to confront a co-worker with behavior or tough issues. Sometimes they’re larger, like walking through a difficult divorce, with children. Then they can grow into health issues, surgery, treatment options, and facing life and death issues.

Can you see yourself standing at the foot of that mountain you must climb – filled with dread, fear, and weakness? There’s no way around that mountain except up and over.

Here we are — the week before Easter – Holy Week. Easter is the most celebrated event in Christianity. This is a good time to remember what Jesus went through. He, perhaps, could have gone around his mountain of suffering and crucifixion. But he also knew that the Scriptures needed to be fulfilled. God’s plans were greater. So, he did a lot of praying – A LOT — and started to climb that mountain for us. But after Jesus went through all the suffering, he rose into heaven. Can you imagine the view from heaven? I can’t. It’s something beyond all of us until we get there.

Jesus knows He will come again, too, and that he will reign. He has the ultimate victory. God’s plan was more remarkable than anything we could have imagined, so Jesus climbed the highest mountain.

Can thinking about Jesus’ death and ultimate victory encourage us as we face our own mountains that we must climb? I hope so. Because guess what? Jesus is climbing right beside us. We can cling to him in all we do, even when it’s hard. Even when the path is rocky and steep, and we’re sapped of strength.

Our strength, our obedience, our hope, comes from Christ. We can make it to the summit, remembering God’s plans are ultimately greater.

With Jesus by our side, let’s climb that mountain with confidence.

The view from the top is magnificent.

Share ways you’ve climbed an impossible mountain. Let’s encourage one another.