If Thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and
     help us.

     — Mark 9:22

After every time of exaltation we are brought down with a sudden rush
into things as they are where it is neither beautiful nor poetic nor
thrilling. The height of the mountain top is measured by the drab
drudgery of the valley; but it is in the valley that we have to live
for the glory of God. We see His glory on the mount, but we never
live for His glory there. It is in the sphere of humiliation that we
find our true worth to God, that is where our faithfulness is
revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at the heroic
pitch because of the natural selfishness of our hearts, but God wants
us at the drab commonplace pitch, where we live in the valley
according to our personal relationship to Him. Peter thought it would
be a fine thing for them to remain on the mount, but Jesus Christ
took the disciples down from the mount into the valley, the place
where the meaning of the vision is explained.

“If Thou canst do any thing . . .” It takes the valley of humiliation
to root the scepticism out of us. Look back at your own experience,
and you will find that until you learned Who Jesus was, you were a
cunning sceptic about His power. When you were on the mount, you
could believe anything, but what about the time when you were up
against facts in the valley? You may be able to give a testimony to
sanctification, but what about the thing that is a humiliation to you
just now? The last time you were on the mount with God, you saw that
all power in heaven and in earth be longed to Jesus – will you be
sceptical now in the valley of humiliation?

On this day...

• Isaiah 3 - 2023
• Isaiah 2 - 2023
• More Than Conquerors - 2011
• PATIENCE - 2011
• PARDON - 2011
• OFFERING - 2011
• Hebrews 10:34 - 2011
• Living in the Presence of God - 2009
• Song of Solomon 4:7 - 2008
• Proverb 21:30 - 2008