1/30/12 Remembering my
2004 "mountaintop experience" at The Cove continues to draw me. Oh, how sweet are
those mountaintop memories. I want to to return. I want to experience anew that
rich experience I had as I encountered God afresh during my stay there. Yet, I
know that it's down here, in good ole Memphis, where my life meets reality.
Sometimes brutal reality. Admittedly, the glow of a life-changing experience
can seem preferable to suffering, but God can meet us at our point of need.
Therefore, I need to
continue in His Presence right here where "the rubber meets the
road." Where the truth of my faith is fleshed out daily. In the
ordinary---in the mundane--- in the daily grind, even in the pain, I can find
Him. His power is as real down here on the meager bluffs of the Mighty
Mississippi as it was in the majestic Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.
Like Peter in Matthew 17,
it's easy for me to want to stay on that mountaintop---secure in the shelter of
His love and majesty.
1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
Peter was even willing to
build a shelter for each of them. They couldn't stay there (v.9) and I can't
either. Neither can you.
But God ....is allowing me
to return, albeit briefly. I received my confirmation today.
