Mountain Man - A Spiritual Analogy

Mountain peaks are never crowded. Why… because it is hard work getting there. Not many people desire to climb mountains. There is more light on the mountain. Long after the valley is in darkness, you can still see the sun.

The valley is always dark - full of people and things, but usualy in darkness.

The mountain is windy and cold but thrilling. If you are going to climb a mountain, you have to have the feeling that is worth dying for!

Any mountain - the  mountain of this life, the mountain of accomplishment, the mountain of obstacles, of difficulty - has to worth braving wind, cold, and storm, simbolic of adversities.

Only pioneers climb mountains - people who want to do something that few have ever done before, people who want to get above the multitude and go beyond what has already been accomplished.

Pioneers must have:

Vision – vision to see what no one else can see;

Faith – faith to believe things no else believes;

Initiative – initiative to be the first one to try it;

Courage – the guts to see it through!

On the mountain, you feel like you are living eternity. You see the world in its proper perspective, with range after range to be conquered, and a world beyond the vision and horizon of normal men.

In the valley, people get so caught up in the multitude and the little make-believe world of materialism that they cannot see anything but time and creatures of time and things of time, which are soon to pass away.

Men dominates the valley. Men living in the valley think they are god, because they dominate themselves. They have become so secure that they think they do not need God. However, only God nominates the mountain.

On the mountain, you see distant peaks yet to be climbed, distant valley yet to be crossed. You see things that men in the valley can never see or even comprehend.

Beaten paths are for beaten men, but mountain peaks are for the mighty pioneers!

What do you hear on the mountain? Things that are going to echo around the world. What do you hear in the stillness? Whisper that are going to change the course of history!

The greatest sermon ever preached, the "Sermon on the Mount," has given to a handful of mountain men by the Greatest Mountaineer of all, Jesus, who finally climb His last mountain - Mount Calvary, Golgotha - and died alone for the sins of the world. That was a mountain that only He could climb for you and me. After Jesus’ disciples heard His sermon, they came down and changed the world. They were never the same.

What changed them that changed the world? They hear the voice of God teaching them things that were completely contrary to what was being said in the valley!

Having fun while suviving the challenges in every climb is the true essence of
mountaineering.The learnings and amity among mountaineers are the best benifits of it!

Well, mountaineering for me is not really how high the peak you reach, not how nice the destination youll be at, but the joy, experience and camaraderie you will have while trekking, seeing stunning sites along the way… the challenge and hardship you endure and appreciating how the Almighty wonderfully created our world, the
peak serves as your reward or prize you will have.

The bizarre trend of mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they do not dare, they are crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties that do not exist.

Climb high, backpacked bros. & live well!