The Mountaineers of God

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It is impossible to pass this way through the earth as a Believer and not feel pain, heartache, loss and oppression. It's just the way it is. Jesus never said it would be easy. We have to go along the trodden path He made for us. We go the way of the Lord. I have been reading lately about the Hebrew slaves who were under heavy oppression by the Egyptians for four hundred long years. In Exodus it says that the cries of the oppression from the people reached the ears of God in heaven, and He came down to see about it. No, they did not cry to God, they only cried under heavy burdens without hope. They had forgotten to go to God personally and collectively. However, God in His tender mercy still heard every single cry and came down. He delivered them with a great deliverance that no other people on earth can ever compare.

I thought of the Prodigal Son this morning as I sat in the dark, early morning in prayer. The story just entered into my mind, and a deeper sense of that story came in like a door opening and letting light in. I heard in my heart, in a deeper than usual place, "The Prodigal Son represents a fallen believer that comes to his senses and returns home to His Father. But there is something else to consider. There are many people that are not sinning, yet in a sense prodigal in the respect that though they were born in God's House, have left off to live without Him, having received their initial salvation. Just like the prodigal who took his inheritance and went on.

They are not sinning but in pain and longsuffering. They have been under heavy oppression for a very long time and are deeply conditioned by it. God hears their cries of pain and oppression. They have stopped long ago going to God about it. They, in a understandable way, gave up. So in a sense, they are prodigal in that they have joined themselves to the world to look for peace. They apply methods to get peace, they go to others to have peace. But they spend all they have "spiritually," and become famished.

The prodigal knew it was time for him to go home to His Father, and rehearsed what he would say unto Him. But before he even saw his Father, his Father saw him, and still, before he could get one word out that he rehearsed, His Father was already kissing his face, and hugging him. Today, though you are not sinning, but in pain, injured mortally, and famished spiritually. Arise, and go to the Lord. No need to rehearse. He knows all about it. Return today, and let your heavenly Father kiss you, and wrap His arms around you, and give you rest forever.

The kind of peace you have been looking for on earth is not available. You must look upwards to your Father in heaven. Jesus said, "My peace I give you, My peace I leave with you, not as this world gives, but as I give. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid." He sits on His throne in the mount of God in heaven, and you must climb the hill, you must become a mountaineer, and there you will "see Him who is invisible," and you will have rest for your soul. But you must remain there.