It is good to be the possessor of some mountaintop experience. Not to know life on the heights is to suffer an impoverishing incompleteness.

Those times when the Lord’s presence is marvelously manifest to you—the moments of self-revelation— do not despise them. But beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mount with God!

Horizons broaden when we stand on the heights. There is always, we find, the danger that we will make of life too much of a dead-level existence; a monotonous tread of beaten paths; a matter of absorbing, spiritless, deadening routine.

Do not drop your life into the passing current, to be steadily going you scarcely know where or why.

Christian life, writes one, is not all a valley of humiliation. It has its heights of vision.

Abraham saw in the glorious depths of the starry firmament visions that no telescope could ever have revealed! Jacob’s stony pillow led up to the ladder of vision!

Joseph’s early dreams kept him in the hours of discouragement and despair that followed!

Moses, who spent one-third of his life in the desert, we find crying out: “I beseech thee, show me Thy glory!”

Job’s vision showed him God and lifted him out of himself!

The mariner does not expect to see the sun and stars every day, but when he does, he takes his observations and sails by their light for many days to come.

God gives days of special illumination that we may be able to call to memory in the days of shadow and say: “Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar” (Psalm 42:6).

In the life of Paul, we find a few of these blessed interludes—when the Lord gave to him words of promise to remember in his days of trial that followed.

If these special experiences came too often they would lose their flavor!

He walks in glory on the hills and longs for men to join Him there.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord , and he shall sustain thee.—He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.—Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.—Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are ye not much better than they?—Be not faithless, but believing.—Lo, I am with you alway.