| | Its been awhile since I've truly updated this blog. I confess a lot of this was due to laziness. But mainly because of a lack of inspiration of what I truly wanted to say. It was only until recently it struck me in the head, what I should be pondering about. And perhaps, what most of us should ponder about every now and then. I've return from an incredibly spirit-filled end of the year youth camp last year and more recently in the beginning of the year, Residential Bible School. And the question that I've found myself asking was "Can that mountain top experience that we have with God ever be immortalized into our everyday lives?" Then as if in answer to that, I felt God speaking to me through one of my devotional materials. The passage that struck me was this:
We all have moments when we feel better than ever before, and we say, "I feel fit for anything; if only I could always be like this!" The fact is...we are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to even when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for the everyday world when we are not on the mountain top.
 Yet at the end of the day, after having a moment together with God in
His presence at the top of the mountain, we must bring our everyday
life up to the standard revealed to us on that mountain top when we
were there. Be it to my own fellow SSGC/Agape members or to my fellow RBS mates of 2008, I hope this encourages you as much as it has encouraged me as I read the passage:
 Never allow a feeling that has awakened in you, as you encountered God
on the mountaintop, to evaporate. Don't place yourself on the shelf by
thinking, "How great to be in such a wonderful state of mind!"
Act immediately----do something, even if your only reason to act is that you would rather not. If God does show you something to do, don't say, "I'll do it"----just do it!
Pick yourself up by the back of the neck and shake off your fleshly
laziness. Laziness can always be seen in our cravings for a mountaintop
experience; all we ever talk about is our planning for our time on the mountain.
 We must learn to live in the ordinary "gray" day according to what we saw on the mountain.  Don't give up because you have been blocked and confused once-----go after it again. Burn the bridges behind you......  and stand committed to God by an act of your own will. Never change your decisions, but be sure to make your decisions in the light of what you saw and learned on the mountain.
Peter, James and John witnessed Jesus' transfiguration on the mountain. They saw Him become whiter than snow in a blinding light. They were shown a glimpse of who Jesus really was. That signified their close relationship with God and God revealed to them who Jesus was. And it is that vision that they took from the mountain and carried it through all their lives. It is that revelation of what God had shown them that was lived inside them and revealed itself to others through their own lives.
I hope that we too will never forget what God has shown each of us on Camerons and that we will carry what revelations that were revealed to us from God into the ordinary "gray" day of our lives.
And let us be reminded that we are never alone as we struggle. But let
us always uphold each other in prayer and in love. Let us always love
in action and in truth.
Be reminded as well, that God will also always keep watch over you by sending His angels to guard you always.
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 Angeles
Be encouraged...=)
Catch You Later
Angeles
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