"And a man of God came near and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, 'Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.'" (1 Kings 20:28; ASV)
As God brings home the saints, as the
Lord Jesus leads home many sons to glory, we have to pass through an infinite
variety of circumstances and they are not always mountain top experiences,
there are valleys, sometimes very deep valleys…
The God who is victorious in 1 Kings 20,
the God who having begun a good work in us will perform it until the day of
Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6), the God who wants you and me to get the maximum out
of those valley experiences through which in His wisdom and His love He puts us
through (see 1 Thessalonians 3:3).
The taunt of the enemy is, “Sure, they
have the victory in the mountains. The money’s coming in, the family is
healthy, and everything is going well. Their god is a god of the mountains.
“But their god is not a god of the
valleys. They won’t have the victory in the valleys–when the
money’s gone, when they’re facing serious health problems, and when nothing is
going their way.”
The enemy’s greatest attacks come to us
in the valleys of our lives, when we’re discouraged, doubting, disappointed,
and facing adversity. In those times, God wants to reveal Himself as the God of
the valleys.
The Christian life is not leaping from
mountaintop to mountaintop. We experience mountains and valleys…and God is the
God of both!
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