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"Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? - Psalm 24:3
Here we have the Christians supreme prerogative - to ascend into the hill of the Lord, and to stand in the holy place; to have true and holy and unbroken fellowship with God.
When God created man in the beginning, He created him essentially for this purpose, that man might have fellowship with Him; but through sin man fell from his high estate, and forfeited the glory of fellowship with God, and thus failed to fulfil his creative purpose.
But then God in Christ comes to man again, seeking to reconcile him and restore him to his former position. The harp that lay broken in the dust of this world, He restrings, and gives it back again in order that man might praise Him and worship Him in the Spirit.
And the purpose of God is not fulfilled until we have ascended far beyond theories and above theology, far above experiences and orders and systems, far beyond documented and tabulated ideas of truth, into the hill of the Lord, where we have taken the shoes from off our feet and entered into real and vital communion with God.
It is for this the Apostle Paul prayed on behalf of the church at Ephesus - 'that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory ......to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.'
The glory of God is never revealed to those who do not enter into the holy place. It is as we tabernacle in the mount that we catch a glimpse of the grace and glory that fills us with a sense of awe, and a sense of reverence and godly fear, and sends us back again to our stations in life with the mark of God upon our characters and upon our conduct.
Here we have the Christians supreme prerogative - to ascend into the hill of the Lord, and to stand in the holy place; to have true and holy and unbroken fellowship with God.
When God created man in the beginning, He created him essentially for this purpose, that man might have fellowship with Him; but through sin man fell from his high estate, and forfeited the glory of fellowship with God, and thus failed to fulfil his creative purpose.
But then God in Christ comes to man again, seeking to reconcile him and restore him to his former position. The harp that lay broken in the dust of this world, He restrings, and gives it back again in order that man might praise Him and worship Him in the Spirit.
And the purpose of God is not fulfilled until we have ascended far beyond theories and above theology, far above experiences and orders and systems, far beyond documented and tabulated ideas of truth, into the hill of the Lord, where we have taken the shoes from off our feet and entered into real and vital communion with God.
It is for this the Apostle Paul prayed on behalf of the church at Ephesus - 'that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory ......to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.'
The glory of God is never revealed to those who do not enter into the holy place. It is as we tabernacle in the mount that we catch a glimpse of the grace and glory that fills us with a sense of awe, and a sense of reverence and godly fear, and sends us back again to our stations in life with the mark of God upon our characters and upon our conduct.
