“O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!”— Isaiah 40:9
Each believer should be thirsting for God, for the living God, and longing to climb the hill of the Lord and see him face to face. We should not rest content in the mists of the valley when the summit of the mountain beckons us.
My soul thirst to drink deeply of the cup which is reserved for those who reach the mountain’s peak and bathe their brows in heaven. How pure are the dews of the hills, how fresh is the mountain air, how abundant is the provision of the dwellers aloft, whose windows look into the New Jerusalem!
Many saints are content to live like men in coal mines, who see not the sun; they eat dust like the serpent when they might taste the food of angels; they are content to wear the miner’s garb when they might put on king’s robes; tears disfigure their faces when they might anoint them with celestial oil.
I am convinced that many a believer pines in a dungeon when he might walk on the palace roof and view the goodly land. Rouse yourself, believer, from thy low condition! Discard your laziness, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your sincere and pure love for Christ, your soul’s Husband.
Make him the source, the centre, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight. What fully enchants you into such folly to remain in a pit when you may sit on a throne? Do not live in the lowlands of bondage now that mountain liberty is conferred upon you.
Do not be satisfied any longer with tiny attainments, but press forward to things more sublime and heavenly. Aspire to a higher, a nobler, a fuller life. Upward to heaven! Nearer to God!
“When wilt thou come unto me, Lord?
Oh come, my Lord most dear!
Come near, come nearer, nearer still,
I’m blest when thou art near.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
RESOURCES
- Morning and Evening Spurgeon:https://spurgeonsmorningandevening.com/2021/11/23/evening-november-23rd-2021/
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