High Above by Deon Crafford

Psalm 36:5-6 Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O Lord.

Psalm 121:1-2 (NIV) I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

I have just had the privilege to spend a couple of days in the mountains with my family. Every day I woke up to the majestic and towering peaks of the mountains and every night they etched in the fading light. Weather patterns changed and every time its composition with the mountains created a different visual outcome, but the mountains remained unchanged and perpetual. It then struck me how often mountains feature in God’s Word. Most people who know God, will bear witness to how mountains tend to amplify His presence and His majesty. It appears from His Word that God also chose mountains as a meeting place; perhaps as it were removed from the daily cacophony of life and allowed for deeper engagement between man and God. The Psalmists also realised this given the multitude of references to the mountains.

Mountains rise above, they provide perspective, they often allow quiet contemplation and they tend to bring a sense of humility – all of these mixed in with a strong dose of undiluted awe. These are all wonderful gifts that God bestows on His people – in fact on the righteous and the unrighteous as the Word reminds us in terms if the shining sun and the rain. God makes His presence and majesty known to all and even the most hardened enemy of God, cannot but be moved by the undeniable greatness of His Being. Thank God for the mountains, through which He draws us closer!

We would however be amiss in not recording how Jesus advised us that we’d move mountains with our faith the size of a mustard seed. What He suggests is that yes the mountains may declare God’s majesty, but even though they have the look of perpetuity, God still commands them and my faith in Him will move mountains. Despite the changing weather patterns in my life, God’s majesty supercedes and endures, and if I can bring my faith into the smallest of pure, God shall remove anything that to me seems insurmountable and provide me an even path. And as I end this the silhouette of the mountains break through the grey-blue dawn.

Love to all