“The little engine that thought he could”

There is a little children’s story with a big lesson. The story is about a little steam engine that was traveling down the tracks when he saw a great big hill in front of him that the train tracks went over. He had never climbed such a big hill before. But he said to himself “I think I can climb that hill” and so he did. He succeeded climbing that hill in large part because of his attitude, for his positive attitude allowed him to use everything he had to climb that hill. Had he thought that he could not climb the hill from the get go he would most likely have failed to make it over the hill despite the fact that he really could make it. When traveling down the road of life we are faced with new “hills” that we have never climbed before. Some are bigger then they look while others are larger. However as a Christian we have a Savior that promised us that he would never put more on us then we could handle (I Corinthians 10:13) and that he would never leave us nor forsake us (Heb 13:5). He also tells us that we can “do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Php 4:13). So next time you are faced with a “hill” to climb remember the little engine that could.