Come Up Higher
As my husband and I boarded the airplane to head to New York, I was afraid the flight would be delayed because of the weather. A terrible snow storm had come through the day before and the roads were terrible. The sky was grey and foggy and flurries still lingered in the air.
I sat in my seat starring out the window thinking about my life. At that moment I began to relate my life to the gloomy weather. I felt like my life was in a slump and I was discouraged. Obstacles often make me question decisions I’ve made, in those times I tend to look for things I can do another way in hopes of getting a different outcome. Whenever I feel this way my mind begins to run a million miles an hour, I get restless and anxious.
As I began to make my mental to-do list on how to improve my life, the plane raced down the runway. As we began to accelerate and lift off, I watched as the ground below drew further and further away from us. The gloomy clouds began to restrict my view of the ground as we went higher; after only a few moments, we went through the last of the clouds and reached such an altitude that the clouds were now below us and above us was a beautiful blue sky where the sun shined brightly.
Just then the Lord began to speak to me; He showed me that even while I sat on the runway waiting to take off, the blue sky and sun was there all along; I just couldn’t see it because of where I was sitting. It amazed me how my reality had changed so quickly all because my position changed. While I sat lower, the clouds made everything look sad and dismal; however, elevation allowed me to see my day in a whole different way.
How many times have we assessed situations and made judgments before we have allowed God to lift us up. I don’t know about you, but after I have spent time with the Lord I begin to see things from His perspective instead of my own.
We should never, ever take spending time with the Lord for granted. We must always make His Word and our devotion to Him a priority. Many of us make far too many decisions before taking the time to get God’s perspective. Doing this may possibly contribute to wrong decisions we have made. In essence we could be sabotaging our own destiny because we are reacting to things that we have limited visibility on.
In your time with God, I encourage you to stay in His presence until you have really seen things from God’s eye view. The Lord is urging His people to Rise up. In fact that day as the Lord began to minister to me on the plane, I continued to hear the Lord say, Rise up daughter, Rise up.
God is calling His children to come up to a higher place; it is critical during this hour that we choose not to live a mediocre Christian life. Full abandonment to the ways of Christ is what He is requiring. Anything less, just won’t sustain you in this hour.
I encourage you as the Holy Spirit encouraged me to rise up to the place where Christ has called you and continue to cultivate your Christian life from that position.