The Climb: Fighting Apathy

To climb is to fight resistance. This takes passion, strength, and perseverance. Failing to battle the forces that weigh us down results in apathy, weakness, and attrition. Apathy is simply a loss of feeling. The Bible calls this callousness. Calluses form when something loses its ability to resist friction, as seen on the hardened hands of a construction worker. But when a man refuses to resist the forces that press against him, the callus forms over his heart. He becomes indifferent to th...