Up on the Mountain

Not too many weeks ago, we got to spend a couple of days in the mountains. These pictures were taken on our way up to Klingman's Dome in the Smokey Mtn. Natl. Park. It does me good to get away, go out into nature & enjoy God's creation. I always seem to leave better for it. I am refreshed. Energized. Stirred in my thoughts about God. I get a sense of the bigness of the Creator.

Funny thing though. I don't live on the mountain. On the long drive up to the top, we did not pass one house. There were many visitors from all over the country there that, but at the end of the day they were all going to come back down. Do you see what I see? We are not meant to live on the mountain, not at the top. We can go & ought to go as often as we can. We must always come back down to get back about living our lives. We come to the top to see God. But we go back down to serve God. Some try to live an isolated, hermits life away from people & supposedly serving God but strangely never seeking others for Him. He commanded us to go. The command is definitely to go after them, but it also has an element of leaving Him at the top of the mountain.

Moses had to come down. Joshua came down. Peter, James & John came down. Let's go to the mountain of the Lord & get what we need. Then let's come down ready to seek the souls of men, women, boys & girls. Then let's teach them & take them back up the mountain with us. God bless.