Height -- Overcoming Supernatural Life
Then we rise to the heights--a higher dimension
and quality of living, what Jesus calls the "abundant life" (John 10:10). We cannot live in the dynamic power of the resurrection,
unless we have first died--to sin, self, pride, ambition, the desires of the flesh. But once we have surrendered, Jesus raises
us up again to a supernatural life of love, joy, peace, and overcoming sin, self, Satan, and the world through the power of
the Spirit. We fix our eyes on Jesus, "and all the things of earth will grow
strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace."
As A. B. Simpson testified, "I
have found a heaven below, and I
am living in the glory. . . .. " Our attitude then becomes:
"Once it was the blessing, now it is the Lord, once it was the feeling, now it is His Word."
In this state, we do not regard ourselves as having arrived, or having become perfect, but we press for the higher
call of God in Christ Jesus: "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." We "launch out into the deep" and do not remain on the shores of superficiality
and carnality in our Christian lives. We hunger and thirst for more of God.
As A. W. Tozer wrote in his classic book The Pursuit of God:
"Within this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears .... there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious
lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities. . . . They are athirst
for God and will not be satisfied until they have drunk deep at the fountain of Living Water.”
Breadth -- Overflowing Life of Love and Service
That hunger and thirst for God then partakes of God's passion--a compassion for the weak and hurting, and a passion
for lost souls, overflowing in a life of sacrifice and service for the sake of Christ and the needs of others--rescuing others
from the miry pits and bondages of their lives and lifting them up and leading them to a Higher Life of freedom, healing,
hope, victory, and restoration.
Join in the journey to the Higher Christian Life!
