Mountainous Living

We as believers are called to live in the mountains. God dwells in the mountains. Mountainous living is adventurous, scary, surprising, exhausting, full of excitement…you never know what might be around the bend. There are two sides to every mountain; what we see and what we don’t see. A lot of us would prefer living in the plains where it’s comfortable, you can see everything for miles, no surprises, everything’s laid out, easy. But that’s not reality. When it came time for Abraham and Lot to part ways Lot chose the plains, Abraham lived in Canaan.

Mountainous living requires faith. By the very nature of a hill you realize there is part you cannot see. Living in the mountains means you have to trust Someone. Mountain climbing is work, exercise, realistically strenuous at times…just like life. Life is difficult, but when we understand that life is difficult it somehow becomes less difficult. Life is a test. And attitude is everything.

God tested Abraham. And for every painful step he took up Mount Moriah, there was an invisible God (to the human eye, that is) bringing His plan into play. None of it made sense to Abraham, but he kept moving. Little did he know on the other side of the mountain God was preparing the provision necessary to rescue him from peril.

"O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your Name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8) "How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You." (Psalm 139)

Keep hiking, my friends! And behold the beauty of the Lord…if it’s not in your eye view at this moment, keep looking…you’ll see it.