The Mountains of God

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 13, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 23.

The Mountains of God

It is good to get away from the earthquake and fire, beautiful as they are in picture and interesting as they are in fact, out into the great cool mountains of God, with their pure air, clear skies, long reaches of distance, and sweet awesomeness of strength. God met with His children in the mountains. "Come up to Me into the Mount, and be there;" He said to Moses His servant, "and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them." "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion," He tells His Gospel herald, "get thee up on a high mountain." And then—"Lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God." The psalmist, looking upon the mighty snow-capped Lebanon, lifts his thoughts to God and exclaims, "Thy righteousness is like the great mountains. . . . How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings." "The strength of the mountains are His." He "by His strength setteth fast the mountains, being girded about with might." So, dear reader, let us look away to the great evidences of God's strength and goodness, trust in His power, and rest in His love.