JULY 9 – Did you call?

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me” - Psalm 23:4

You know the feeling, you're busy with your usual daily routine when you suddenly feel called – just chatting to Him in your mind about your problems as you wash the pots, isn't enough – you want an in depth, two-way conversation with Him....time alone with Jesus.

That has happened to me several times over the last two weeks, and just this morning, I sat down and opened my Devotional Bible. The first thing I saw as the pages fell open, were the words, “Jesus prayed, followed by “He went up on a mountainside by Himself to pray.”

Jesus faced an impossible task. More than 5,000 people were ready to fight a battle He had not come to fight. How could He shw them that He had not come to be a king, but to be a sacrifice? How could He take their eyes off an earthly kingdom so that they would see the spiritual one? How could they see the eternal when they only had eyes for the temporary? What Jesus dreamed of doing and what He seemed about to do were separated by an impossible gulf. So Jesus prayed. He prayed for the impossible to happen.

Maybe He didn't ask for anything. Maybe He just stood quietly in the presence of the Presence and basked in the majesty. Maybe He lifted His head out of the confusion of earth long enough to hear the solution of heaven. Perhaps He was reminded that har hearts don't faze the Father. That problem people don't perturb the Eternal One.

We don't know what He did or what He said. But we do know the result. The hill became a stepping stone; the storm became a path, and the disciples saw Jesus as they had never seen Him before.

During the storm, Jesus prayed. The sky darkened. The winds howled. Yet He prayed. The people grumbled. The disciples doubted. Yet He prayed. When forced to choose between the muscles of men and the mountain of prayer, He prayed.  There are crevasses in our lives that we cannot cross alone. There are hearts in our world that cannot change without help. There are mountains that we cannot climb until we climb His mountain.

Climb it when you are called. You will be amazed.

Music today is “I Just Came to Talk With You Lord” - LIVE Click on the picture to listen.