Life carries one through ups and downs. Ups and downs that are experienced in our "valleys". Yet there's a place that allows us to navigate such places by granting us the graces we require for our journey. That place...is our "mountaintop".
You see on my mountaintop I came to learn by design that my God is greater than all my cares. Greater than my worst disease and sweeter to me than all the loveliest women I would ever come to know. I find His peace immeasurable and His love unfailing. His power? Without limit. I could stay there for days soaking in His sun...basking in His life and love but you see, the mountaintop isn't some long term spiritual move nor is it a place meant for eternal peace. Each time you climb there's a limit to how long you can stay and it's designed this way for a purpose. It's purpose finds fulfillment in the dredges of the valley.
It's in the valley that you now get to see all that God showed you from Him...manifested through you. It's in the valley that you are tested by despair, pain, fear and loss. It's in the valley that God lets you realize a stirring truth..."I showed you how great I was on the mountain; I prove it here...in the valley". With every climb to the mountaintop you "know" greater strength and with every subsequent walk in the valley...you display it. In the valley...we face our hardest test.
Yet what happens when your time in the valley has gone on for way too long and the last memory of God's strength was so far gone away that its epiphany has become a distant memory? This is when the valley can swallow you whole and drive you into its darkest depths. The grip of fear and doubt will overtake you as though you were just a child with no knowledge of the growth you've already achieved and time? It runs slows in this place...as does life.
Snap out of it and refresh yourself a bit on a mountaintop even though there is work to do in the valley below. You're no good draggin your knuckles on fear and doubt no matter how big and bad you think you are. Let God reveal Himself to you again so you can believe again. Trust again...so you "can do all things through Him that strengthens you". Now...I know what my mountaintop looks like. How bout you? Been runnin too long? You might just need a new mountaintop experience and lest you think I'm talkin about a vacation...your mountaintop? Is within you ;-) Much love...I'm out...
~Moses Apollo
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