Mountain Top vs The Valley Experience

This scripture gives us a view of rest and refreshing.

Many think of the mountain top as a place of victory and rejoicing, yet it is the mountain top where most danger exist for a Christian.

Let’s look at the mountain top from a clear perspective.

It is hard, with snow not dirt. It is cold and very windy.

Every rock usually has sharp edges and there is very little if any thing growing on a mountain top.

There is no food or water found on a mountain top, just cold ice and snow.

The danger of falling is very real.

For the Christian, the mountain top is a place where injury or even death are a very real possibility.

One wrong step, one unguarded moment, one time of letting down your vigil and a Christian could be injured, maimed, disfigured, or destroyed completely, spiritually speaking.

Let us look at the valley:

In the valley God restores our soul.

There is food and water in the valley.

We lie down in green pastures to rest, refresh, repair, and recharge our spiritual bodies.

Our souls are restored in the valley.

We are led in the paths of righteousness because we have God’s name on our lives.

What we live is an example to others of what a Christian is suppose to be and what we are not suppose to be as Christians.

The things we do and the things we do not do are a testimony for others to see that we have God’s name on our lives and we live in right ways to please Him.

Even though I walk through trials, test, battles, struggles, etc. I will deal with them as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

I will not fear because I know that my God is with me always!

He has provided for my protection and my comfort. I can have confidence in His provisions.

God’s Protection and provisions displayed

He feds me a banquet right in the presence of my enemies.

My enemies are trying to destroy me and my God stop them, prevents them from doing me any harm, and feds me, restores me, strengthens me right in their presence.

My God anoints my head with His holy oil, His Spirit.

I am anointed for His work and for the ministry He has for me to accomplish. He not only fills us full, He overflows us with His Holy Spirit to saturated state and more.

King James Version Chapter 7

37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

The Result of these Blessings

Rightness, goodness, right living, mercy, and all of God good things will will follow me and be with me all the days of my life.

That means that the people who’s lives have been touch by me, my life, and mostly by my God, will also benefit from these blessings.

It is very important that the witness we live is one that uplifts and testifies of God.

The effects of God’s work and blessings

As a result of my God’s work in the valley, I will make a commitment with myself and with MY God that I will make my dwelling in His house forever.

Or another way to look at this is that I will make myself a dwelling place for my God to live forever in me.

Therefore where ever I go, where ever I live I have committed to be God’s house forever.

King James Version Chapter 6

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and oye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: