Mountain Living-Part 1

 Living on the mountain is a different way of life. 

If you are from the South, you know that summer is miserable. Depending on what part of the South you live in, it is downright brutal. In Memphis, summer is no joke. The humidity is always at 100%. It usually doesn't rain. Mosquitoes the size of 747 planes take a pint of blood out of you every chance they get. You will literally start sweating from the time you walk out your door to the time you get to your car. Okay, that might just be a fat guy thing. But honestly, it is just hot.

I usually spend my summers hugging my air conditioner. It's like I become a vampire. I hate the sun. I hate outside. I do not want to face the heat. I avoid it as much as possible. I like my igloo of a house with all of my fans pointing at me. I. Must. Stay. Cool.

One of the things I noticed about my trip to the mountain was that outside is just different there. The sun is out, but it isn't hot. The air is light, with hardly any humidity. You can actual smell the flowers in the breeze. We walked for a long time and didn't hardly sweat at all. I remember saying to one of my friends, "Can you imagine doing this hike in Memphis weather?" He said, "We would have died in the first mile."

The weather on the mountain begs you to come outside. It is inviting. It isn't oppressively hot or humid. It feels good to be out there. The wind blows hard up there, cooling you down. It feels good up there. You just want to stay outside all of the time. 

Dwelling on the holy hill is a lot like that. It begs you to come out of your comfort zone and do something different. The air is different there. It isn't oppressive or heavy, but light and enjoyable. You catch a breeze of the holiness of God and it refreshes you. You want to stand and just enjoy that breeze all day. Standing in the brilliance of God's glory just feels good. The trip up is a little tough, but once you get up there, you don't want to come back down. You don't want to go back to where you came from because it so nice to be on that mountain, in His Presence, and as a result of that, you will never be the same again. 

Life is now different because you are on the mountain.