The Mountain Top Experience

I believe that all mankind should strive to attain what I call, “God’s vantage point.”  It is a place that affords the opportunity of seeing, with clarity and broad view, the activities that the adversary of our soul is doing around us; the behavior, actions, and tricks of Satan.  He is the opponent and enemy of all that is holy and of good report.

To obtain this vantage point one must confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead after Jesus had willingly given His life for the sins of humanity.

(Romans 10:9-10), “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”  vs.10 “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

The mountain top experience happens when a person asks God to forgive them of their sins and invites Jesus into their heart to become Lord and Savior of their life.  It is at that moment a person is changed from death unto life; becoming a new creation with different desires.  Personal expectations are enhanced, because there is now a reason for living.  It is the ‘abundant life’ that the Bible speaks of.

(John 10:9-10), “I am the door.  If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”  vs.10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.  I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”

You may be thinking that it sounds too easy and straightforward to be true.  Let me assure you and say from personal experience, “It is just that easy.”  People make it hard, because they feel undeserving of the love and compassion that God offers.  The devil makes them feel unworthy and unclean, because of their guilt laden past of walking in the flesh, but Jesus is saying, “Come to Me.”

(Matthew 28-30), “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  vs.29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”  vs.30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

God’s love is free to any person wanting the mountain top experience, which provides a vantage point of spiritual insight.  We become sons and daughters of Almighty God and soar like eagles when we accept God’s Son as our Savior and Lord.  Our weary souls are energized and invigorated as we remain steadfast in Him. 

(Isaiah 40:31) “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

The act of love that Jesus did on the cross by shedding His blood for you and me gave us a wonderful hope of spending eternity in heaven with God the Father.  Without this hope we are, without a doubt, most miserable.

On the other hand, our adversary, the devil, is going about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.  His lies are many; such as:  “Come; follow me and I will show you the way; I will teach you that truth is what you say it is and what you make it to be; I will reveal how you can really enjoy life if you do what I say.”  His counterfeits are numerous; full of dead man’s bones.  

Jesus said in (John 14:6), “…I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Nothing I ever tried compared to the mountain top experience that I had when I opened my heart’s door to Jesus the night I heard Him knocking; January, 1969.  He lifted the heavy burden of sin off my shoulders and I literally took in a deep breath of air, and said aloud, “I can breathe.”  It was a sigh of relief, because I was “born again.”  The “new birth” had really taken place.  I felt the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, while peace flooded my soul like a fountain of living water!

There was an instant awareness that I was a new person inside.  I had been set free from bondage!  The next day my friends could see the difference in my countenance.  Instead of expressions of anger, unrest, and eyes that were searching for peace, they saw a calmness and quietude; not there here-to-fore.  I had found the Prince of Peace—Jesus. 

The composure that possessed my being was that of Christ.  I felt His love coursing through my body and soul like waves of the sea crashing onto awaiting seashores.  Words escape me when trying to relate the feelings of bliss that was happening.  You will have to experience it for yourself.  

The mountain top experience happened as the Bible said it would.  My sins were forgiven; the Lord took up residence within my being; my old nature faded in the light of God’s love and grace; and the new nature of a Christ filled life took over.  I was changed!  And I was happy!  I found what I was looking for!

(2 Corinthians 5:17), “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

(Revelation 3:20), “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Written by,

Papa Boyd