Elevation and Impossible Things

I am long over-due for an update on life, however it is not as important as this! Listening to David Walker's album, Closer Than Angels, is probably my favorite thing to do during devotional times. It just works for me. So, as I am listening to the song, "It's Been A While", which goes a little like this, "I'm sorry Lord that it's been a while since I've been on fire would you mind showing me some light? It's been a while since I've been on fire and I'm nothing but ashes inside." I was also reading a devotional about going to higher places with God. To step back and say something like the aforementioned verses in the song is really something convicting, especially since this man is a worship leader. But this happens so often, and begs the question, "WHY?!"!!!! Really, I have been plagued by this question since I first became a Christian and ever felt a fire. Have you ever, as a Christian or someone who is not a Christian, ever been afraid that it is too late? That it has been too long since you last spent time with God, felt his presence, or even acknowledged him? I have. As I have grown up in my faith, I have realized by the many years of God actually taking me back that the following is so true that I had to share it immediately: "Both God and Satan use the strategy of elevation, but Satan uses it in temptation, and the effect is quite different. When the devil elevates you to a certain place, he causes you to fasten to YOUR IDEA of what holiness is: something farr beyond what flesh and blood could EVER bear or achieve. Your life becomes a spiritual acrobatic perfomance high atop a steeple. You cling to it, trying to maintain your balance and daring NOT TO MOVE. But when God elevates you by his grace ... you find a vast plateau where you can move about with ease... Your growth in grace is not measured by the fact that you have or haven't turned back, but that you have insight and understanding to where you are spiritually." - Oswald Chambers It is at that point that God calls you to go up higher. The author of the song I mentioned up top ends the song with "you see beauty in me, let me see you." I hope for myself and for you that you choose to live freely on a plateau, and not to live frozen, struggling to maintain your own balance on a tightrope filled with temptation and inability.