“For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.”  These are the words of Solomon in Ecclesiastes 3 that have been immortalized in poetry and song.  But, oh how true they are!  Life is indeed a journey that is seldom traveled on the “flats,” but rather traversed up and down continuing hills and valleys.

The problem lies when we are at the very bottom of one of those wretched ravines and looking up at the next hill to climb.  We are tired of the spiritual low.  Our repentant hearts want to start the climb toward spiritual awakening and productivity.  The problem is inertia.  It just takes SO MUCH ENERGY!

Spiritual lows drain us.  They leave us emotionally exhausted, and the easy thing to do is just STAY there.  This was true of all great men and women.  Moses was tempted to stay with his sheep in the wilderness, and Elijah was tempted to sit down and keep sleeping in the cave.  But God urged them to climb.  He called them forth from the crevice of spiritual decline and pushed them forward.

Perhaps today is the day you need to start climbing again?  Could God be calling you from the valley?

CLIMB!!!