Ascent of the Inner Everest

Len says 'It is natural for me to equate the Christian life with a mountaineering expedition. I love mountains. The major portion of twenty years' missionary service has been in the High Himalaya. The tangled mass of eternal snows, glaciers, ice falls and deep valleys was the world of my missionary commission. I lived amongst remote people who were simple, honest, brave and hardworking. They came to accept me. Some came to accept my Saviour.'

Len goes on to say 'Life to me is one great expedition. It is the ascent of a personal inner Everest. My experiences of God are also pages of a living theological thesis. Often I have been confused by the loose usage of spiritual terminology; sometimes baffled by the fixed terms of reference to special "blessings". Thus I look back through forty years of walking with Jesus as the predominant Personality in my life. He has led me in an ordered way — in spite of myself!

To David, the Psalmist, the Lord was his Shepherd. To Paul, the call of Christ was involvement as a soldier, or as an athlete in the games. Have not I a similar privilege to see in Jesus Christ my Guide and Climbing Companion? This is the viewpoint of this book.

These studies have been shared at Youth camps, also at a convention for the deepening of the spiritual life at Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, U.S.A. I am now asked to help others to climb. It may tend to lose that anointed personal touch by appearing in cold print, but I have just risen from my knees after prayer to our mighty God through Jesus Christ for that enabling to help you climb high on your own Inner Everest.