Valley of Troubled Hearts

Introduction

If my calculating is correct Moses went to the mountaintop to be with God a total of eight times that we know of. He may have been to the mountain top more times then was recorded in the Scriptures. We know that on one of those occasions in Exodus 34:28, Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain top with God chiseling the Ten Commandments. So let me ask you two question. The first one is: can you say that during the span of your Christian life, have you been on the mountain top with God at least 8 times? Moses could. And the second question is: can you say that during the span of your Christian life, can you say that I know that I have spent at least 40 days and 40 nights with God on His mountain top? Moses could.

My Bible in Acts 10:34 tells me that God is no respecter of persons. So, what Moses did, I believe you and I can do. We need to thrive to spend as many times as possible on the Mountain top of God; and we need to thrive to make those times on the Mountain top as long as possible.

But, unfortunately, when we are not on the mountain top, we find ourselves in the valleys. And the purposes of the valleys are to prepare us once again to go to the mountain top of God.

And so far in our series, we have looked at the Valley of Berakah which was a Valley of Crisis for Jehoshaphat and the people of Israel; and then we looked at the Valley of Beka which was a Valley of Tears for those who pilgrimaged to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast Days order by God in Deuteronomy 16:16. Today, we are going to look at the Valley of Achor or the Valley of Troubled Hearts and see what we can learn.

So if you have your Bibles turn to Hosea 2:14