Higher ground!
Verse for Today: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Genesis 19:27 – Early the next
morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he stood before the
Lord.
Our meeting place with the
Almighty God is always on the higher ground. It is a place of spiritual height
where we are privileged to behold the glory of our God and hear His voice. It
is a place where we have received His great promises. It is the place where we
get ourselves lost in the wonder and awe of His eminence and magnificence. The
higher ground elevates us to the heights of spiritual encounter with Him and
gets His vision about what He would do around us and through us. The higher
ground will fill us with the awe of the Lord and live humbly as His servants.
But it is also a place of prayer where we are able to speak to the Lord just as
Abraham did. We have the freedom according to His grace to dialogue with Him
about our spiritual burden for ourselves and others. Abraham used such freedom
to intercede for Lot and at the same time, he enjoyed promise about his own
family. It was from this higher ground that Abraham was able to see the way God
fulfilled His will about Sodom and Gomorrah. From there Abraham was able to see
by faith how the Lord would have delivered Lot and his family from destruction.
Abraham couldn’t have desired to stand on any other ground because none else
would have given him the kind of spiritual experience and privilege to stand
with God. Today when we bend our knees to pray, we reach that higher ground
where our God comes down to listen to our prayers. He comes down to the holy
ground of prayer where our tears are wiped and burdens exchanged. It is there
that He treats us as mothers cuddle and comfort little children. Today our Lord
invites us to go to the higher ground to meet with Him to enjoy divine
fellowship and a time of sharing. It is the shadow of the Almighty here on
earth and our dwelling place on His green pastures.
Dear friend, today you have the
freedom and opportunity to be adventurous by climbing to the higher grounds
where our God will meet with you. Let’s go there with our burdens, tears,
problems, difficulties, pain, misery, failures, losses and defeats. He will
meet with us at the place of intercession and interactive prayer where we can
share all our cares with God. He will take it all away and give us His peace
and joy in return. Once we pass it all on to the Lord, there is no reason for
us to carry it again. If we trust Him with all our tomorrows and our eternity,
there is no need to continue to carry it ourselves. Our Lord has very broad
shoulders to carry all our burdens all the time. Perhaps you are burdened today
about your job situation, financial crisis, business failure, ruptured relationship,
physical ailment, unkind criticism and false accusations. But your Lord will take
it all from you if we are willing to hand it over to Him. He carries it away from
us so that our load will be lightened and our pain reduced. He comes to us to
listen to our cries for help. He has all the resources that we need to meet our
needs and resolve our burdens. He gives us the freedom to speak to Him as our
best friend in need and friend indeed. Just as Abraham, Moses and David took
advantage of the opportunities at the higher ground, let us draw near and share
our burdens with our Lord and dwell there with Him at the higher holy ground.
Acts 7:33 – Then the Lord said
to Moses, “Take off your sandals; the place where you are standing is holy
ground.”
Thought for Today
When we climb the mountain to higher ground to meet our God, we will
rise above all our earthly cares.
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