‘The height of the mountaintop is measured by the dismal
drudgery of the valley, but it is in the
valley that we have to live for the glory of God. We see His glory on the mountain, but
we never live for His
glory there. It is in the place of humiliation that we find our true worth to
God— that is where our faithfulness is
revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at some heroic level of
intensity, simply because of the natural selfishness of our own hearts. But God wants us to be at the drab everyday
level, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship with
Him. Peter thought it would be a wonderful thing for them to remain on the
mountain, but Jesus Christ took the
disciples down from the mountain and into the valley, where the true meaning of
the vision was explained’ CHAMBERS
Even a casual reading of the Bible reveals the
struggle to keep the focus on God and not the circumstances. As I read about the nation of Israel and the people’s very short memory …
it is easy for me to be critical. God
worked in such powerful ways on their behalf, yet it wasn’t long after those
might acts that they acted as if He had never done anything for them .. as if
He was absent. And then I consider my
own life. I remember that I am not so
different from them. When I face my next
giant, I don’t always remember who is with me .. who is my strength .. so I
stand trembling in the face of the issue at hand. Like the men of Israel before Goliath. But David, still a young boy, faced him,
knowing that God was on his side. He
knew that there was nothing too hard for God.
Don’t you know that the world is watching? As you face life in the valley. Trusting in God in spite of what is going on
around you, that your light is shining brightly … giving testimony to the power
and grace and mercy of God. Showing the
world what faith looks like. What a
difference the power of faith makes in the life of a person living in the
valley.
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Corinthians 4:6-11 ‘For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. (7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. (8) We
are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair; (9) persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down,
but not destroyed-- (10) always carrying
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. (11)
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the
life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.’
Let God use your life as a light to show those
around you the way to the Cross.
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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