Do you ever feel like this world is closing in on you with stress, fear, hopelessness and pressure? In these tight places, we find that the horizontal view is not the direction our souls look to for strength and fortitude anymore. We have this knowing deep within to look heavenward. I really believe that when God created mankind He did so with the added feature of the spiritual reflex of looking upwards. The spirit of man looks up because whether people know Jesus or not, the looking up indicates that there is something more. Something otherworldly, and a Someone far greater than themselves or any human. In the Bible, remarkable things occurred on mountain tops. Remember how God revealed Himself to Moses. Remember how Noah landed on a mountain top after the flood. Remember how Elijah challenged the false prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount, which were the Beatitudes. Faith is spoken in relation to a great mountain. Or not being afraid when the Psalmist says, "God is our refuge and strength, and ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried in the midst of the sea.." God's eternal dwelling place is "on the sides of the north, Mt. Zion the city of the great King," in heaven. When we see the mountains, they speak to us of God's immoveable, mighty love for us. His eternal nature in great powerful, majestic display. If you are feeling weary, worn down and afraid, you really do not need to drive to the mountains to meet the Lord. You can do what David did when he said, " I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore."
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