King of the Hill
When I was younger growing up in MN, during winter after a large snowfall had settled and after the plow went through the cul-de-sac, which left a huge mound of snow, all the neighborhood kids would get together and play king-of-the-hill, the purpose of the game? The purpose was to get to the top of the giant snow mound and well, stay there. This means there was a lot of pushing, shoving, snow balls, and rolling around, quite fun I must say. The problem with being on top was that everyone else was trying to dethrone you, so in the end, no one could really stay on top for long. In The Pursuit of God A.W. Tozer tells us that the same game, though far greater in importance and consequence, occurs in each of our hearts. He states, “Within the human heart “things” have taken over. Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne.”