Lame Deer, MT
Relentless Resolve
by Park Timber, Associate Staff
"As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem."
Luke 9:51
In this text God would have us see that resolve 
or determination is a good thing. If we are determined to do something, we can accomplish a great deal.
In 1877, my people, the Northern Cheyenne, were moved onto the Cheyenne-Arapahoe reservation in present day Oklahoma. After a year of starvation and disease, Little Wolf and Dull Knife led a band of 297 Cheyenne to return to their homeland on the Northern Plains. Dull Knife and about 150 Cheyenne were caught in Nebraska and taken to Ft. Robinson on October 25, 1878. When it became evident that the Cheyenne were going to be returned to the south, Dull Knife and his group escaped from Ft. Robinson on January 9, 1878 at 9:45 p.m. Only six out of Dull Knife's 150 and Little Wolf's band of about 134 made it north. Dull Knife and Little Wolf are remembered as two heroes who led our people home to our present day reservation in Montana.
Today God would have us recognize the resolve of those who have gone before us and the things they have accomplished. In this life, our resolve to follow Christ is challenged in many ways. We are challenged by Satan, by temptations, by our past, by sickness and death. God calls us today to look to the One who, in His resolve, did not give up in the garden of Gethsemane, but instead went to the cross to secure for us a home with Him in heaven.
So when we are set back by sin and those things that would keep us from our goal, we remember Christ's resolve and His cross that we might receive forgiveness and new life. This day may we receive Christ's forgiveness and resolutely pick up our crosses and follow Him.