Setting out to Stand on a Mountain...

Have I said yet, how much this Ladies Bible study seems to know exactly what's going on in my life? Beth Moore, did you plant a camera or bug in my house? God is more and more amazing to me all the time. He's sneaky, I'll tell ya! It has taken me 4 days of writing and editing to finally publish this post. Im figuring either God had more to show me that i wasn't seeing, or He knew that someone else would need it on this day...or Both! He does know best!

We are so quick to play spiritual when everything is going smoothly aren't we? Praise the Lord, it's a blessed day! We're on top of the world! GOD IS GOOD! And sometimes we can't even get it thru the gritting of our teeth when things are rough. We hold hope thru tears and praise Him, trusting this is only for a season. But when we are smack in the middle of lowest point in that valley...sometimes we forget that He's still with us. God hasn't fallen asleep at the last stop...He hasn't ran off to the next leg of the race without us either. He's there...even when we can't seem to find Him.

Psalm 125:1
"They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever."

Psalm 30:6,7
"And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled."

There have been moments in my life over the years where sometimes I just forgot that I needed God. When I forgot, He was sure there to remind me. But I didn't always find Him at first. Sometimes I felt He was too busy with everyone else or just not interested in me because maybe I don't deserve His attention. Even now, I struggle with this now and then. I admit just in the past year There have been many moments that I wanted to ask why I wasn't feeling Him. Where did He go? What happened to this never leaving or forsaking business??? But once again my Bible study has given me a slap to wake me up. God's promises are true. I believe that with all my heart. I know some promises are yet to be fulfilled here on earth and will be heavenly promises. But we should rely whole heartedly on the words our Father says to us. Last week we learned that God is for us...He's on our side, and He's our strength. If GOD is for us then WHO can be against us?! But don't we feel sometimes like EVERYONE & EVERYTHING is against us? Today the study discusses Psalm 125. It tells us that those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion...we CANNOT be moved!

an excerpt from our Study Workbook...
"God is with us and for us even when is face and favor seem hidden. Mountain-like security only comes from trusting God, not what He's done for or given us, however glorious and eternal those things may be...The difference between trusting God and trusting what God has done is a fine line we can easily trip over ..."

Boy does that ring true!? We are currently studying faith in our Young Adult class. I think in today's world Christians, no matter how strongly they believe in Christ and have faith in His salvation, we can often struggle with faith in his hand on our lives. Its so easy when we are on the Mountain tops...but will we remain with our eyes looking up when we are traveling thru the valley? Im gonna stop this post now, but there will be more on this subject to follow. Its something that comes about in several seasons of our lives and something to keep building on. So here is one of the songs Dave and I sing that I just felt was totally fit for this post and the heartsong of my day.



"Mountain Of God"

Thought that I was all alone
Broken and afraid
But You were there with me
Yes, You were there with me

And I didn't even know
That I had lost my way
But You were there with me
Yes, You were there with me

'Til You opened up my eyes
I never knew
That I couldn't ever make it
Without You

Even though the journey's long
And I know the road is hard
Well, the One who's gone before me
He will help me carry on
After all that I've been through
Now I realize the truth
That I must go through the valley
To stand upon the mountain of God

As I travel on the road
That You have lead me down
You are here with me
Yes, You are here with me
I have need for nothing more
Oh, now that I have found
That You are here with me
Yes, You are here with me

I confess from time to time
I lose my way
But You are always there
To bring me back again

Sometimes I think of where it is I've come from
And the things I've left behind
But of all I've had, what I possessed
Nothing can quite compare
With what's in front of me
With what's in front of me