Those mountaintop experiences!

Everyone has had them, I know I have them quite regularly. For me it is those times in the ministry of our church where something happens just the way I feel it should or faster than expected. It is also those times when I sit down to plan and to prepare a message and the words flow through me like I'm not even there. I sit down and my fingers start typing, my mind starts working and everything just shows up on the screen as if God had put it there almost without my recollection.
But life is not always on the mountaintop. As a matter of fact, it's on the mountaintop experiences that GOd actually prepares us to be on the ground, or in the valleys of life. God uses those moments to outweigh the tests and the tough times that must be in order for our faith to grow. As much as we pray for it, as much as we long for it we can never stay on the mountaintop. That is not where God can use us best, it's in the valleys and the reality of life's misfortune that GOd prepares us to be used by Him.
After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them Mark 9:2
Later in that same chapter we see what happens when they come back down from the mountaintop with Jesus.
When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him. "What are you arguing with them about?" he asked. A man in the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not."
So when they came down they were bombarded by situations and a demon possessed boy which they could not handle. They had to call on Jesus to help out because they were seemingly powerless.
This is another reason we can't stay on the mountaintop. When we are sky high and everything is great, we are closest to God but our flesh takes over. It's when we're on those mountaintop experiences that we start to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to and we attempt to do things without Jesus' help. We try to do it all on our own because we are feeling so empowered and strong. So we need to spend some time in the valleys, sometimes right after our mountaintop experience so that we can remember where those great experiences and moments come from. They come from the personal relationship God designed His Son to have with us. They come from the Spirit moving and using us. Not from our own fleshly efforts.
So enjoy the peaks in life, but look for the valleys because that is where God is going to use you most.
have a great day and thanks for reading!