Humbled. Silent. Humbly silent.
In the busyness of Peru, we still had the privilege of being given time to climb Machu Picchu. Three years of excitement stored up for this moment, I was ready to go - not even the 2000 death steps we had to climb to get to the top could dull the excitement buzzing in me.
When we got to the top, we were greeted by thick mist and could hardly see what was in front of us. Trying to stay positive and accepting the fact that I wouldn't get good photos, I stared at the mist in front of me whilst listening to the tour guide.
I looked away for 2 minutes and when I turned around, back to face the mist, my excitement was shattered, my breath pretty much knocked straight out of my chest and I was smacked in the face with a huge slice of humble pie.
I have never in my life seen mountains as marvelous as the ones that towered before me. I have never felt so small. I have never felt so humbled. I have never fallen so silent in my soul.
Just as you start to think you're something, God comes, holding nothing back, to show you otherwise.
When I climbed to the top and saw the mist, I accepted that it was all there was. Besides the ruins of Machu Pichu (which are also incredibly beautiful), there was only mist at the top. But when the mist cleared and I was faced with mountains bolder and more graceful than I have ever seen, a different kind of excitement started to brew - a revelation.
James 4:14 - " “yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”
I used to be believe that we were compared to mist simply because our lives on earth are so short compared to our lives in eternity. And though this too is true, I have a complete new take on this comparison.
The mist clears, vanishes, only to reveal something so much greater. The mist is not permanent, but the view that the mist covers is. Although the mist is all we can see now, we know that when it clears, there is so much more.
So much more.
What a joy that for now we are only mist! What a joy that there is so much more than this!
My life, this mist, is beautiful. I have travelled the world, everyday I am flooded with His Grace and I am the bride of the King of Kings. Sometimes I catch myself thinking that it can't get better than this. I Silly girl, silly silly girl.
I thought Jesus gave us the opportunity to climb Machu Picchu because I prayed I could tick it off my bucket list. Ha, jokes.
He did this to humble me, to silence me before His creation and to teach me who He is again.
And a bonus of this whole experience: I got GREAT photos.
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