Hurdles are barriers whose effect is to impede someone’s forward progress. Hurdles must be reckoned with, not ignored or side-stepped if forward progress is to be made. Therefore, they are crossed over. Hurdles are best known today in the area of track and field racing. The higher the hurdle, the harder it is to get over. There is a crisis of confidence in faith, hope, love and life resulting from hurdles of unbelief. People have given up on anything transcendental. By that it means anything that has to do with the spiritual or non-physical world. When something is transcendental, it's beyond ordinary, everyday experience or anything going beyond the regular physical realm. People today say “I’m a realist”. What’s that? Someone who hopes for or accepts only what seems possible or likely, and does not hope for, expect or believe more than that. Realism leads to high hurdles of unbelief. Those who believe that it can’t get any better than this and that life under God can’t be better than life under themselves in the here and now leads to another high hurdle. The last high hurdle is letting go of the known to follow the unknown. We won’t abandon our flesh, our desires, our will for something promised, because something promised is not something possessed. We know want we have and are afraid we will end up with nothing. No faith in God. These are examples of high hurdles people erect of unbelief which makes is difficult or impossible for them to get over. We have the power to turn these hurdles into stepping stones by realizing what is real can’t be based on what is known to be possible, that life under God could be as different as life between a man and a fly and that we must not be afraid to let go of what we have in order to receive what God has promised.