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COME UP HIGHER!
Good morning! This morning at our Family Devotions we sang the hymn, “I’m pressing on the upward way, new heights I’m gaining every day.” In case you don’t know it, I’ll post the words at the end of this post. It’s one of my favorites.
My husband, Colin, always ends our devotions with a word of encouragement for the day, e.g. “May this be the greatest day you have ever lived!” “Have the greatest day of your life, filled with joy and love!’ and so on.
Today he said, “”Let’s come up higher today—a higher place of joy, a higher place of hope and faith, a higher place of victory.”
How true. We don’t have to live in the basement of doubt and gloom and despair. Unless you want to. You have the option! But who wants to live in the pits? You can come up higher. You don’t have to live by what’s happening in your life or by your feelings. Jesus Christ not only died for you to save you from your sins, but He comes to indwell you by the power of the Holy Spirit to deliver you from sin and despair and from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4).
You can live in joy, above your circumstances, because Christ who is Joy lives in you.
You can live in rest, above the turmoil of life, because Christ who is Rest dwells within you.
You can live in victory, above your doubts and feelings of failure and worthlessness, because Christ, the Overcomer dwells in you.
Come up higher in your home today, dear mother. In the midst of your little children and all you have to do, you can live on the higher plane. Live in the realm that Jesus died to give to you. Take hold of His life that is in you and part of you.
Live the higher life.
Love from Nancy Campbell
P.S. Here are the words to the hymn if you don’t know it.
I'm pressing on the upward way,
New heights I'm gaining every day;
Still praying as I'm onward bound,
"Lord, plant my feet on higher ground."
CHORUS:
Lord, lift me up and let me stand,
By faith, on Heaven's tableland,
A higher plane than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where those abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
I want to live above the world,
Though Satan's darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I'll pray till heav'n I've found,
"Lord, plant my feet on higher ground."
