Moving UP & Moving FORWARD

It’s a great day, isn’t it? Its been 13 hour since I woke up this morning and still it is so fresh remembering what happened in morning prayer at church. I remembered it still dark when I went out from my house and turn on the car to be heated a while before we flew to the church. So, this is the topic that I’d shared in Morning Prayer. Grab them all!

You know, as a human being we’re all about moving to one place and then another. The moment we are not moving, we are dying. But today, I want to focus about MOVING TO THE RIGHT WAY. If you ever listened to one sentence that often used in order breaking up, people tend to say “life must go on, so lets move on” – This is not the kind of move that I want to talk about. Its not just about moving on without direction or moving on with a wound in the heart. Its about Moving Up and Moving Forward. Come on say that again to yourself:

MOVING UP – MOVING FORWARD

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance …Exodus 24:1 (NIV)

Berfirmanlah Ia kepada Musa: “Naiklah menghadap Tuhan, engkau dan Harun, Nadab dan Abihu dan tujuh puluh orang dari para tua-tua Israel dan sujudlah kamu menyembah dari jauh … “ Keluaran 24:1 (ITB)

Several times in the Old Testament, God appointed Moses and also Abraham to COME UP to the mountain – its like God wants the private place to speak to them, to give them a law (today we often called it as ‘r.e.v.e.l.a.t.i.o.n’). This is what I called as “MOVING UP” or “Moving to God” – up to God’s mountain. This is the first movement that we need to redouble the effort, to MOVE UP (Sometimes to Move Up, we need to traveled on our knees, and many times we need to give up every heavy burden one burden at a time while we’re climbing to finally arrive at the top of the mountain. Up in the mountain, is the place where God will speak to us, giving us a clear direction, or even heal our broken hearted and traumas in lives.

It’s a place where there’s only you and God – face to face just like Moses and Abraham. This is the first and the most important movement in our entire lives, that before we’re moving forward we know exactly where to go, what to do, and why we’re doing what we’re doing now.

In New Testament, Paul told Galatians in Galatians 1:12

“I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.” (Aku menerimanya oleh penyataan Yesus Kristus)

And also see Galatians 2:2

I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. (Aku pergi berdasarkan suatu penyataan)

MOVING UP first before you MOVING FORWARD.

Moving forward is the second important movement; because God is always moving.

By the time we stop moving, we stop following God.

“…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run (moving forward) with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross…”

Hebrew 12:1-2

Whether you got hurt in the field, or you need some direction for your future, or you are facing your giant nowadays … MOVE UP to the mountain (get down on your knee with a heart that reaching out for Him, with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength), then don’t be too long stuck at your place where you are now – MOVE FORWARD with the eyes that fix on God (only God) – and don’t look back!

Jesus replied, "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

Luke 9:62

That’s all for today, I’m moving forward and moving ahead.

How bout you?