There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one-day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.

The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.

Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.

The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.

Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.

As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.

And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?

One man greeted her and said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?"

She shrugged her shoulders and said, "It wasn't your baby."

For this woman, the mountain was not to high, the roads where not to rough, and the enemy was not to strong for her because this was her baby. This was something that was very personal to her! It was one of the most important things of her life.

I often wonder if we take the mountain of soul winning personal enough? How important is winning souls to you? Could it be that the lost souls that we encounter each day may need to become more personal? Jesus went to the mountain of death for your sins and mine because we were personal to Him. He calls us his children because we are his children. Jesus tells us, as believers that lost souls should be something very personal to us. One of the most important things that a Christian can do is win souls! The bible tells us in Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This verse reminds us of just how much God loves the lost person. This verse reminds us, that to God we are not just souls living on this earth, we are personal to him. When lost souls become more than just people living in this world and become more personal to us, then we will strive to win these people to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We have to be able to love souls before we can win them. This kind of love can only be given to us from God himself!