Up on the Mountains.

The mountains are beautiful.I'm always at peace with God when I'm at the top of a mountain.

Life's easy there. It's where we are closest to God.

But we can't stay there forever. As much as I would love to live on the top of a mountain, God doesn't want me there.

"Those moments are only to serve as inspiration.... We were made in the valley and that is were we have to prove our stamina and strength," Oswald Chambers explains in his devotional book "My Utmost for His Highest."

I honestly wasn't expecting to get that much out of the Oct. 1 entry in his book, which I pulled off the self by chance.

The moments on the mountain are meant to inspire us and help us see things from God's perspective, so we can reach those who don't know Christ, Chambers says.

We think we need to be THAT close to God all the time. We think we need to live like angels. God calls us to come down from the mountain and help His people. We're humans for a reason.

Don’t get me wrong. I'm not bashing being on the mountaintops. I love them.

As Chambers goes on to explain, those times on the mountain with God are extraordinary and serve a wonderful purpose in our time with God, but it would be selfish of us to stay up there with God when there are hundreds of thousands of people down in the valley who need us.

This was an awakening for me. I get so consumed with making sure I'm close to God and completely in tune with Him, I forget the whole point--to climb back down the mountain and show others how to climb up.

What would happen if we all remembered to be rock climbers?