A Mountaintop Experience

A Mountaintop Experience “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, Your God reigns!” Isaiah 52:7 I love the mountains, as I spent many peaceful and wonderful hours with my grandfather hunting and climbing the mountains as I was growing up in my beautiful state of Kentucky. It is encouraging to know that the disciple Peter also had a “mountaintop experience” with Jesus, and he wanted to stay on the mountain also. I believe God gives each of us a mountain experience during our lives to refresh and restore us. So often most people spend much of their lives in the valleys; worrying, struggling, and dealing with their problems of insecurity, financial issues, relationships and just dealing with the everyday stresses of life. Our time of “valley dwelling” is so filled with frustration, fatigue and irritation that we take our eyes off God and worshipping Him, as our thoughts are often centered on ourselves. When we are “valley dwelling” it is difficult to see what lies in our future as we cannot see what lies ahead as our thoughts and minds can only see the sides of the mountain. However during these times we need to look up, and see Jesus and the mountain top, as the view from the mountain top is wonderful and a “mountaintop experience” is all many of us need to refocus and recommit our lives to God. So today as the bills keep coming in, and the dishes pile up, and the pressures of life build around you, look up toward the heavens and renew yourself with a mountaintop experience with God. Isaiah 55:12 “You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.” My Daily Devotional Volume III April 3 Robert William Brock, Jr.