Our daughter came home Sunday morning with sermon notes. “God doesn’t call qualified people. He calls them and then He qualifies them.”
It’s so true; it’s the Holy Spirit He puts in us in order to qualify us for the journey He’s called us to walk. As we trust Jesus, face trials and our fears, we become qualified on the way so we can walk on high places.
At first, we are not even aware of who we have in us or what we’ve been called to do, or where this heavenly power will take us in this life’s journey. All we know is we must answer the call.
I had just seen a documentary on Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. They are Colorado’s state animal, and our state has the largest population of bighorn sheep in the world. As the tiny newborn lamb timidly trusts and follows its mother across the steep, rocky slate of wall, it has built-in suction feet and a balance that holds it to the side of the mountain. The commentator said lambs don’t know they have that balance in them. It’s born in them to climb high rocky canyons and cling to the rocks.
Well, people of God, aren’t we born again to climb to high places in the spiritual world? Has not God fortified us to fight the darkness and have victory?
I immediately referred to Habakkuk, who wrote about his doubt and how God gave him faith. In the last sentence he wrote, “The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places” (Habakkuk 3:19, NKJV).
He calls them mine high places. Mine high place is different than yours. It’s what God builds into each one that is uniquely ours and designed for our success.
When God touched me, He poured into me a desire to walk in the heavenly realm. He gave me Holy Ghost fire in my gut, excitement in my mind, a want to in my heart, hands ready to serve, feet to walk on high places, and he’s provided years to qualify me for the journey.
This call doesn’t afford us to linger in meadows of flowers. It’s not an easy journey, but a must do. And a satisfying one.
The call God put on my heart gave me the hunger of needing more — much more. I needed hours in the Bible every day. I needed to soar above the mundane. I needed a relationship with Jesus where I knew He loved me and had my back. I did not need to fear, and I had the power to face the trials of walking on high places.
A prophetic word came to me that I was a path builder. Not a pioneer who follows the deep ruts of a wagon party or even one sitting in the wagon, but a path builder where there is no path. I was to make a way for others.
Sounds like heresy and you might say, “There’s only one way to walk with Jesus, so get back in line.”
I can’t stay in line. Today, I understand the calling God put on me from the beginning. I always ran ahead of the sheep, always ahead of my time, a visionary making my own path, always climbing higher reaching for those higher places.
From doubt to faith, from want to to must do, God qualifies us to walk on high places and do whatever He calls us to do. When people say, “Don’t quit writing,” I tell them I can’t stop writing, it’s not a want to, it’s a must do until God says, “Enough.”
Final brushstroke: Like the newborn sheep, God equips us with what we need when we trust and follow Him. He’s in the business of qualifying us to walk on high places. It’s wonderful to look at the world from God’s vantage point.
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