This title for this blog is quite ironic for what has been
happening in my life over the last couple of weeks. I recently have finished my Gold Duke of
Edinburgh expedition in Scotland. It was an experience which I look back on and
reflect. Some of these reflections I am
going to share with you.
Whilst we were walking in the beautiful mountain ranges
around Glencoe we faced many challenges.
Although each day that we started out we had renewed strength from God
which helped to make the first half of the day bearable! But once our heavy
rucksacks and our feet began to get sore we found that each step got harder and
harder, and it just felt like we would never reach camp for that night. When looking at the scenery it just seemed
like there was so many mountains that were obstacles for us to reach our goal
of camp. Looking back at times it just
felt like we needed to stop and set up camp there and then, yet we didn’t, we kept
going to reach camp. I know relate this
to my faith with God, as during our walks with God we face many trials and
tribulations that we feel like we are never going to get through, and it feel
like the mountain in your way will never move. I found that during Duke of
Edinburgh when I prayed out to God for help, he gave me the courage and
strength to keep on going, and it is the same when we go through trials and
tribulations as he is there by our sides at all times and he is waiting for his
children to cry out to him for help. He wants to help you because he LOVES you
with and everlasting love and because he created you. I was once told God leads us into hardship to
see how much we will trust him, and through this we become a stronger person,
it is God moulding us into the person he wants us to be. The times of hardship helps to prepare us to go
out and serve God with our whole lives.
Another thing I found was that it was so easy to get lost
whilst doing Duke of Edinburgh, and on a number of occasions this happened to
me and my team. Our first day we got lost due to a sign that made us think that
our judgements were wrong, yet after two hours of walking the wrong way we
found out that we were meant to go up
the other path. This is like us in our
faith, sometimes we tend to wander away from God as we think that we can do
everything else better on our own, and then we begin to wander into sin. When I think of the sign that we saw, it now
makes me think of the devil that is constantly battling with us trying to get
us to stop following our Father in Heaven.
I then remember the moment when we realised that we were indeed lost in
the mountains, this is like when we realise that we are lost in sin and we have
wandered away from God, and this realisation can come in all shapes and
forms. It can be something that is said
in church or yf, or something that we sing in worship songs or simply feeling God
speaking to us and telling us to come home and he wants to protect us and make
us whole again.
The whole way through Duke of Edinburgh the verses that
really helped me was.....
“I can do ALL things through Christ
who strengthens me” – Philippians 4v13
“The Lord will fulfil his purpose for
me; your love, O Lord, endures forever, do not abandon the works of your hands.”
–Psalm 138v8
I found that these verses were such a blessing as they gave
me the courage and the strength to continue on as I knew God was there with me,
strengthening me all along the way. And I
knew that if I completed in that it was all in God’s plan for my life.
Love you girlies
xxx
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