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Mountain Tops With Jesus: Calls to a Higher Life

By: Theodore L. Cuyler
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 Many of the greatest events mentioned in the Bible are linked with certain mountains; they are both nature's monuments, and the memorials of divine grace. Ararat, the patriarch of mountains, smoked with the first sacrifice in the restored world; Moriah reminds us of the victory of faith, and Nebo of the Christian's vision of the celestial Canaan. Sinai still towers as the sublime symbol of divine Law, and Olivet is redolent with Christ's loving interviews with His disciples. Carmel quickens our faith in the power of prayer; and Zion is the type of Christ's everlasting reign, and the saint's everlasting rest. On a certain occasion Jesus took His three favorite disciples up into a high mountain apart; it was probably one of the southern spurs of Hermon, and it commanded a wide outlook. The Master is still doing the same thing with His followers. Worldliness has a tendency to dwarf us, and selfishness to cramp us into narrow quarters. We need to be called up where we cannot only live higher but look more widely—where we will not think of our little selves, but of the wants and claims of other people. The horizon of Peter and John was wonderfully widened when they ceased to catch fish for a livelihood, and became fishers for immortal souls. By the same view-enlarging process Christ's spirit still makes ministers and missionaries and evangelists and philanthropists. Saul of Tarsus was not merely converted, he was enlarged into an apostle to the Gentiles and Kings and Roman Emperors. When John Bright lost his wife, a Quaker friend came and told him that his best comfort would be in laboring for the starving poor of England; Bright threw himself into the movement for cheap bread for the masses, and soon became enlarged into the great leader of many social reforms. That is the way the Master deals with the men and women whom He wishes to make useful; He calls them up out of the lower atmosphere of selfishness, and teaches them that true religion does not consist in feeling happy but in making others happy. That is the true "higher life" which lifts us into a closer fellowship with Jesus, and at the same time into a wider outlook. Then heavenly things come into our vision; for the things which selfishness sees are temporal, but the things which faith sees are eternal. When Jesus took these three disciples up into that high mountain apart, He brought them into a close communion with Himself. They saw no man but Jesus only; and it was good to be there. The Master had times and places for quiet converse with His disciples, once on the peak of Hermon, but oftener on the sacred slopes of Olivet, and there He held His last interview before His ascension. Every Christian now should have his Olivet also. Most of us, especially in the cities and towns, live at high pressure. From early morning until bedtime we are exposed to the whirl. The world meets us at the breakfast table in the columns of the morning newspaper; then we launch out into the crowded day. Care collars the tradesman, the lawyer, the mechanic, in fact, every man, as soon as he leaves his home. The day's furnace of exciting occupation is kindled in the morning, and glows at a. white heat until the sunset. After such bustling days come the evening meal, the evening paper, the evening visitors, the social entertainments, and in some happy cases the evening prayer-meeting in the house of God. Amid all this maelstrom how little chance for quiet thought, for family worship, for God's Word, for prayer and heart fellowship with the blessed Master! Christian Living Christianity Spiritual Growth Marriage
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