After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” ---Revelation4:1
A person’s character should be accustomed to high; do not tend to humble; in this way, he will produce a high sentiment. If your external life is true to keep with your highest standards, God will say to you. “Friend, climb a little higher.” The golden rule of the temptation is “go higher.” When you rise, you encounter other temptations that are qualitatively different. Satan knows how to test people by going up, and so does God, but with different results. When the devil puts you on high, it teaches you the standard of sanctification, fixed in a position that human fresh and blood cannot bear. It becomes a spiritual acrobatics show, where you stand firm but don’t move. When God uses His grace to lift you up to the heaven, God is not looking for a peak for you to reach, but a wider plateau for you to drive on.
Compare this week’s spiritual journey with the same week of last year, and you will see how God leads you to the heights. We all had the experience standing high and watching, but don’t let God give you a truth that you can’t live right away. When you find the truth, try to realize it and keep it in the light of God.
Progress in God’s grace is not measured by whether you have stepped back, but by knowing where you stand in your spiritual life now. You hear God saying to you: “come up, get up!” This is not to say to you personally that you will be given a higher position, but to character, that you will be greatly improved in your understanding.
“Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?” God tends to hide what he is doing from us until we reach a point of character to reveal it to us.
Dear God, grant me pleasure in your love. clear all confusion and trouble from me, and let me see your way with clear eyes today.
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