LIVING WATERS
For the proclamation of the Gospel and the edification of the Body of Christ
Living in the Height
"But speaking the truth in love, may [you] grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ" (Ephesians 4:15, KJV).
The life of the Christian is the Christ life. So far as our will and responsibility are concerned there must be personal feeding on Christ, and in order to do this we must live in the atmosphere of the Spirit exclusively. As there must be no neglect in partaking the bread of heaven, so also must there be no descent to the malarial valleys. Life must be lived in the mountain heights in unceasing relation to the Spirit, who is the one and only Interpreter of Christ.
Some years ago I met in England a dear friend and, looking at him, was filled with sorrow as I saw that he was in the grasp of an insidious disease which with deadly uncertainty saps away the life. After a long interval, when I was in Colorado I saw him again, and hardly knew him. The rare air of the mountains had given him back his old strength, and had made impossible the spread of his disease. He told me, however, that while feeling perfectly well, it was nec¬essary for him to stay upon those mountain heights, or the old trou¬ble would return.
Let us keep ever in the mountain air. If we descend into the old valleys, the paralysis of the past will come again. We must live in the atmosphere of the Spirit, high on the mountains of vision, and there the appetite for the bread of heaven will be strong, and, feeding upon Christ, we will "grow up into Him in all things". (G. Campbell Morgan).