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by L B Cowman
Not of the Extraordinary
"Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside, of
the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the
Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush" (Exod.
3:1,2).
The vision came in the midst of common toil, and that is where the Lord delights
to give His revelations. He seeks a man who is on the ordinary road, and the
Divine fire leaps out at his feet. The mystic ladder can rise from the market
place to Heaven. It can connect the realm of drudgery with the realms of grace.
My Father God, help me to expect Thee on the ordinary road. I do not ask for
sensational happenings. Commune with me through ordinary work and duty. Be my
Companion when I take the common journey. Let the humble life be transfigured by
Thy presence.
Some Christians think they must be always up to mounts of extraordinary joy and
revelation; this is not after God's method. Those spiritual visits to high
places, and that wonderful intercourse with the unseen world, are not in the
promises; the daily life of communion is. And it is enough. We shall have the
exceptional revelation if it be right for us.
There were but three disciples allowed to see the transfiguration, and those
three entered the gloom of Gethsemane. No one can stay on the mount of
privilege. There are duties in the valley. Christ found His life-work, not in
the glory, but in the valley and was there truly and fully the Messiah. The
value of the vision and glory is but their gift of fitness for work and
endurance. --Selected
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