The Valleys and the Mountains of the Good Land

"For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains. . .(Deut. 8:7;)

This picture of the good land is the type of Christ who is the one who is everything to His people in this age. All the items of this good land represent experiences that we, His people, may have of Him.

The valleys and mountains are pictures that show our experience of the ascending and descending Christ. (Eph 4:9-11) The valleys and the mountains always go together. The Lord will cycle us through these kinds of up and down experiences continually over our Christian life-time. How many times have we experienced being down? And then somehow we were then brought up? This happens over and over again in the seeking Christian.

Why? To produce us into the gift that we are for the sake of the body of Christ. Don't despise the valleys. They are part of the process. You will notice that the valleys are first, followed by the mountains. But don't despair. The springs and fountains flow forth in the valleys and mountains.

Whether we are down in the valley or up on the mountain there is always the supply of the life-giving Spirit to comfort and nourish us while conforming us to the image of the Son.