THE LEVELER

'He brings one down, he exalts another.'
(Psalm 75:7)
 
God is a Leveler. The good news is, his level is always higher than yours or mine, and truer. So when God brings you down, he brings you up. When he brings you up, he brings you up. It is always up with God, like it is always 'Yes!' in Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 1:20)
 
In God and Christ the pursuit, the purpose, is always God, always Christ. He is the reward, and he is eternal life. (John 17:3) This is beyond our minds, and beyond our hearts and appetite. It is so spiritual it is other, a complete upstream walk. We prefer to see the purposes of God in our lives to be an outworking in our earthly lives, like healing, provision and peace.
 
It is true - and great news - that God pours himself out on our earthly lives, and answers our calls (Psalm 118:21); but it is helpful - and important – to remember, to really see and believe, that heaven itself, like earth, is from the word of God, and sustained by the word of God. (Heb 1:3; Col 1:16-17)
 
To know God, to hold Christ, is to go through the 'door' of life. (John 10:9) Life is Christ, and in Christ. It is an all-consuming, spiritual truth.
 
Now the course of distaste of stepping out of earthly values and pursuits into the heavenly realm, is the same course as its reward. The cross marks the spot not only of a crucifixion, but of a resurrection. The darkest point as access to the brightest arrival. Jesus constantly challenged our hold to the earthly, and its hold on us, and he did and will let us 'walk away sad.' (Matthew 19:22)
 
If the Lord is moving in your life today, and it feels like he brings you down and exalts another, let go and rise in his spirit. This is a lifting, a raising up, an eternal positioning and healing.
 
'Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, and he will lift you up in due time.' (1 Peter 5:6)