APRIL 7
GOD OF THE VALLEYS
“Who passing through the valley of Baca (weeping) make it a well; the rain also
filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.” Psalm 84:6-7
We would go up to Mount Zion, we would stand on His holy hill, and yet,
paradoxical as it may seem, oftentimes we discover that the “way up is down” and
through all the humbling process there will come an hour when He shall lift us
up, and we shall live in His sight. Yet there are those who, beholding the
pilgrims who are presently having a “mountain top” experience, while they seem
to be floundering down in a valley, who develop the same kind of thinking as the
Syrians, who felt that Israel’s God was only good for the mountains. But
precious words of encouragement were given to the king of Israel, “Thus saith
the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but He is
not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into
thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord,” (I Kings 20:28). Truly our
God is God both of the mountains and the valleys.
There are valleys which our path must not bypass, for there are rich lessons to
be learned within the confines, and there are rare flowers of Christian graces
which only grow in the deepest shadows of these valleys. But one thing must
always be kept in mind, be it high on a summit, where we view the glory that
spreads over the horizon, or deep in the valley where we finally become
submitted to its “hemmed in” and shadowy corner, neither place is meant for our
eternal dwelling, we are going ONWARD, upward and downward, but ever onward,
until at last we appear before God in Zion.
We’ll go down by the way of the valley,
Just so long as His Presence is there,
Though the path may be shaded and lonely,
He has promised each burden to bear.
We’ll go on by the way that He chooseth,
Makes no diff’rence the hill or the plain,
There are rivers of water refreshing,
And His mercy our path will sustain.
Ray Prinzing
Sister Doris Prinzing
1130 Allumbaugh St. Apt 257
Boise, Id 83704-8700
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