The Valley of Baca is the Narrow Road

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Do you ever have a day or times in your life that you feel very beleaguered? Times where you feel the weight of your journey in the humanity part of yourself? You wonder why things remain the same, and everything is always an upward climb. Have you experienced a moment when God removes all the spiritual scaffolding and props from around you, and down you go. You feel like Paul who "spent a night and a day in the deep." You find yourself like King David who said, "Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications." And yet you remain in a place of feeling your full humanity.

I was experiencing that yesterday. I could not lift myself up, and finally fell asleep letting out a big sigh. In the time of morning devotions and prayer, I heard these words enter into my mind, and into my heart, "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." I have heard many meditations on those passages. However, I wanted to look a bit deeper. From what I understood about that valley, is it was one single road that was the toughest, hardest, hottest and drought ridden passage. The most incommodious one to travel on. There were many other roads that were much easier, and much more convenient than the one that went through the Valley of Baca.

This particular road was for the travelers whose "hearts were set on their pilgrimage" to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem to worship Him. The worshipers that journeyed on before always dug many little pits and ditches for water to quench their thirst. They lined them with stones so that when God sent the rain it would gather it for the other travelers to drink after them. Those whose hearts were also set on their pilgrimage to worship God. This road was only for those who did not look at it with a big sigh. Instead they welcomed it and rejoiced in it counting it well worth it. They went from "strength to strength," and everyone that traveled on it "appeared before God" in Zion at the end. Ultimately satisfying their spiritual thirst. Keep on this road you are on, because you are on the right and only one that leads to New Jerusalem in heaven. You may feel that you are going nowhere, but in reality you have been traveling all along. This is good for you to know it. Just keep going.....

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