Some thoughts to share after rock climbing

Photo Credit: by Adventure Pluz

All of us really enjoyed ourselves during the rock climbing event. :) Besides the enjoyment, we also learned some truths out of this whole experience.

We shared and discussed some thoughts after the climbing experience.



Firstly, we discussed about which equipment were the most important to us during the climb. Here are some of the answers we gathered:
1) belayer (person who secures you during climbing)
2) ropes
3) carabiner
4) shoes

Out of the four, we identified the belayer as the unique one. What is different between a belayer and the other 3 equipment? A belayer can communicate with us, guide and encourage us as we climb, the other equipment can't. Whether we realised it or not, as we were going through the climbing or descending, we actually have to place our trust in the different equipment and people that supported us from the start till the completion of the excercise. If there is no trust in the first place, how then will we be able to climb without fear?

Next, we discussed about having a "belayer" in life. A belayer is someone whom we can trust and depend on. And some of the answers we gathered were: God, parents and friends.

However, can these belayers in our lives be trusted 100%????? Think about it.

We learned that all of us are not perfect people. We have a big problem causing this, and this problem is called SIN. Sin means rebellion and living our life independently without God, who is our creator. We were meant to have a relationship with Him.

Think about our relationships with our parents and friends, we depend and trust one another to keep the relationship going. When we disobey our parents and want them to stop interfering in our lives or leave us alone, we are telling them we want to live independently and this creates a barrier between them and us. Likewise, when we don't trust in God or turn back to Him, we will be separated from Him forever.

The result of not trusting God is judgement, which is death. People have come up with their own approaches of solving this. We think that by doing charity, trying our best to be a good person will help earn some credits to go to heaven. However, this is impossible. Imagine after committing an offence in school and your teacher is about to punish you and you plead with your teacher, telling him/her how well you did in the exams, how good you generally are as a student etc and try to escape the punishment? You can't do that. A wrongdoing can't be covered up by his past good deeds. Likewise, none of us can cover up our problem of sin. Therefore, we all face death.

This is what Romans 3:23-24 tell us:

²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

The only way to solve the problem is Jesus Christ. God sent Him to die on the cross. He died to take the punishment for us. Through His death, those who place their trust in Him may be forgiven and understand the meaning of life, which is to trust and obey God.