More than Enough

When in conversation some days ago, when the topic was about Mt. Sinai and how Moses climbed it to recieve the 10 commandments, a song from the 'Sound of Music' popped into memory and as I started singing it I suddenly realised what it was actually saying. The lyrics are as follows:

Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every byway, every path you know.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream!

A dream that will need
all the love you can give,
Every day of your life
for as long as you live.

Climb every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream!

This song is very well known.. I bet you recognise it and heard 'Maria' singing it as you read the lyrics just now. It is very pretty and motivating. There is just one snag... it is telling you to not just climb to the top of the mountain Yahweh has placed in your path, but EVERY mountain.

The world has the never ending chase towards the greater, better, shinier prospects as it's theme tune. And this false mother (who in the film is portrayed as an unmarried nun lecturing on the affairs of the heart) gives advice to climb every mountain. What does that mean in practice? It means that 'daughters' must restlessly go for higher heights, find greener pastures, chase after the wind.. not to mention rainbows. And at the end of it the promise is the 'dream'!

Now at what point will a woman following this advice be able to tell that THIS mountaintop is the dream? She will always be beckoned to 'higher heights'. Because wherever she looks, the grass will keep looking greener elsewhere...

What happens to a woman who keeps chasing for the best love, the best place, the best deal like this? She becomes a whore. She will dismiss each mountain she has climbed in search of a better one. The truth is, what a woman finds when following rainbows is exactly what the song promises.. an unreal dream! And she will have trampled on many people during that mindless search.

My decision has been to trust.. trust that the mountain put before me is the one He gave me to climb. It is the Mt. Sinai in my life's wandering and I would be silly to chase after other ones. Yahweh is good, and He has made it straightforward and given the best without trickery.

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Messiah Yah'shua throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen" (Eph 3:20-21, NIV).

Author: J.Larsen - Copyright (c) 2006 MLT - All Rights Reserved