{"id":40413,"date":"2026-05-20T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&p=40413"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:19:35","slug":"2026-mountain","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2026-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Men are Always Going Up into the Mountains to Commune with the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed how in the scriptures men are always going up into the mountains to commune with the Lord?<\/p>\n

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Yet in the scriptures we hardly ever hear of women going to the mountains,\u00a0and we know why \u2014 right?<\/p>\n

Because the women were too busy keeping life going; they couldn\u2019t abandon babies,\u00a0meals, homes, fires, gardens, and a thousand responsibilities to make the climb into the mountains!<\/p>\n

I was talking to a friend the other day, saying that as modern woman\u00a0I feel like I\u2019m never \u201cfree\u201d enough from my responsibilities, never in a quiet enough,\u00a0or holy enough spot to have the type of communion I want with God.<\/p>\n

Her response floored me, \u201cThat is why God comes to women.\u00a0Men have to climb the mountain to meet God, but God comes to women where ever they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have been pondering on her words for weeks and have searched my scriptures\u00a0to see that what she said is true.<\/p>\n

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angel show up to Samson’s mother<\/p><\/div>\n

God does in deed come to women where they are,\u00a0when they are doing their ordinary,everyday work.<\/p>\n

He meets them at the wells where they draw water for their families, in their homes,\u00a0in their kitchens, in their gardens.<\/p>\n

He comes to them as they sit beside sickbeds, as they give birth, care for the elderly,\u00a0and perform necessary mourning and burial rites.<\/p>\n

Even at the empty tomb, Mary was the first to witness Christ\u2019s resurrection, she was there because she was doing the womanly chore of properly preparing Christ\u2019s body for burial.<\/p>\n

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In these seemingly mundane and ordinary tasks, these women of the scriptures found themselves face to face with divinity.<\/p>\n

So if \u2014 like me \u2014 you ever start to bemoan the fact that you don\u2019t have as much time to spend in the mountains with God as you would like. Remember, God comes to women. He knows where we are and the burdens we carry. He sees us, and if we open our eyes and our hearts, we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and in the most ordinary things.<\/p>\n

He lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Original : Heather Farrell<\/p>\n

Watercolor by Nancy Laberge Muran<\/p>\n

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