Taking A Step up the Mountain

I was reflecting on a session we had yesterday on being "mountain people" - aka... being on top of the mountain as opposed to down in the valley. I think that the most exciting time of our life in Christ is actually when we’ve taken our first step for the Lord up the mountain!

Why? Because it's precisely at this point of time, when we've mustered enough courage or are desperate enough to take that first step towards seeking God --- that we actually:
1) Would strive to conquer all our doubts and move forward in Faith.
2) Enter a “spring” season which makes us look forward in anticipation to that upward climb up the mountain to seek God’s face and hear His voice.
3) Leave our valleys – our past, our fears, our problems.. and actively look for higher ground.

When we take the proactive approach - to make something out of our dreams, our situation, our lives, we know for sure that we will be rewarded somehow - at the top of the mountain - by God's presence, and blessings of abundance.

Therefore, that FIRST step up the mountain, to me, is the most exciting moment!

Of course, reaching the top of a mountain and looking around is equally exciting... but somehow you have a little nagging feeling that you are nearing the end of the climb and you either stay, (and get stale) or go back down into valley once again!

While it doesn't mean going right back into the same past/problem again - it means we'll have to do the difficult work of change, or forgiveness, or anything that God has instructed us to do that would to solve that problem. And that is the hard part isn't it? We may be called to greater obedience, greater holiness, and a deeper christian life!

But we can't keep still on one mountain. Maybe it's only Mount Kinabalu that we've scaled. There's still Mt. Everest!!

So God invites us to scale the next.. even higher mountain.

Are we up to that challenge?

And if we are already up the mountain, perhaps we need to take one step down. Coz one day, we will still need to come down from the "peaks" of enjoying God and go through the wilderness again, aka cross another valley -- to scale the next mountain, with new knowledge and strength from having been refreshed by God, knowing that He being our provider, will sustain us through that valley till our next destination.

It’s really like scaling peak after peak! Challenging life indeed isn't it?

That’s the Christian life!