Evening
Time: 7:45 PM PST
"Get thee up into the high mountain." --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 ought not to rest
content in the mists of the valley when the summit of Tabor awaits us. My soul
thirsteth to drink deep of the cup which is reserved for those who reach the
mountain's brow, and bathe their brows in heaven. How pure are the dews of the
hills, how fresh is the mountain air, how rich the fare 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 ambrosial meat of angels; they are content to wear the miner's
garb when they might put on king's robes; tears mar their faces when they might
anoint them with celestial oil. Satisfied I am that many a believer pines in a
dungeon when he might walk on the palace roof, and view the goodly land and
Lebanon. Rouse thee, O believer, from thy low condition! Cast away thy sloth,
thy lethargy, thy coldness, or whatever interferes with thy chaste and pure love
to Christ, thy soul's Husband. Make Him the source, the centre, and the
circumference of all thy soul's range of delight. What enchants thee into such
folly as to remain in a pit when thou mayst sit on a throne? Live not in the
lowlands of bondage now that mountain liberty is conferred upon thee. Rest no
longer satisfied with thy dwarfish 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."