Weight-Bearing Cables

So this past week, our Forge class had high ropes challenge course training and certification.  It was the longest three days I've pretty much had yet, trying to cram 20 hours of training and testing into those days.  However, there was a lot to learn about this opportunity to become high ropes certified.  The first two days of the training involved a ton of new terminology as well as participating in the elements, the course itself.  We had to self-belay up a 35 foot pole, traverse thirty yards thirty feet above the ground on wires no bigger than your finger and learn what every piece of equipment was used and where it was used.  Throughout this entire process, our trust and mental determinance was constantly tested.

For me, there was a lot of learning that took place personally.  Being up 35 feet in the air only attached by a rope took a lot of courage and trust.  I have been on a high ropes course before, however, this was the first time that I had to actually transfer myself from cable to cable and to sit into the harness, trusting that it would hold me.  It is certified to hold at minimum 5000 pounds, however, trusting it to hold 200 is much different.  I find this correlates perfectly with my relationship with Christ.  He wants me to put my full trust in Him, yet when I start to walk, the possibilities of failing and falling are evident all around me.  It almost stops me clear in my tracks, causing me not to step into the blessings and opportunities that Jesus has for me.  If I would only look up and see that the cable and clasps (Jesus) are holding me securely and wouldn't look at the ground 35 feet below me, I would see that I am safe.  Just like when Peter took those steps on the water toward Jesus, when His eyes were on Him, he had no reason to worry, but when he looked down and saw the raging seas, he began to sink.

So after this week of thinking and training, a recurring idea keeps rearing its head.  Am I going to look up and trust Christ, keeping my eyes, heart, and mind focused on Him, or am I going to look down and trust in myself?