The path

Eric Liddell compared faith to running in a race. It is an apt comparison. The act of running brings pain and anguish, but it also brings health and joy. At the end of a race, one has not done anything to add to or take away, but only strengthened the inner man, as it were, in the process of travelling along the road laid out by God. In the film Shadowlands, C.S Lewis says of prayer, that "it doesn't change God, it changes me." Faith perhaps, is the same. We run our race, doing the best we can with our feeble legs, and then, we find, as we journey, that we are transformed. We are given hart's feet and set upon the high places. The latter verb is the operative term. Were we to clamber by our unaided legs to the highest peak, still we would be unable to leap and bound upon the snowy crags.