Most of the Christian life isn't lived on the mountaintop. It's lived down in what Oswald Chambers called “the demon-possessed valley.”

In Luke 9, Peter, James and John experience the Mount of Transfiguration. They see the glory of Jesus, hear the voice of God and witness something extraordinary. But then they have to come down the mountain, and almost immediately they're confronted with a desperate father, a demon-possessed boy and a situation the disciples haven't been able to fix.

That's often what following Jesus looks like.

God makes something clear. We encounter Him. We become convinced of something from His Word. We sense His direction and step out in faith.

And then reality seems to contradict everything we thought God had made clear.

The financial provision doesn't come when expected. The person we've been praying for seems to move further from Jesus. Circumstances change. Emotions fade. Common sense starts shouting that maybe we got it all wrong.

So what do we do when the realities of life seem to contradict our faith?

Drawing from Luke 9 and Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest, we'll look at what it means to come down from the mountaintop and continue following Jesus with persevering faith in the real world.

Hold on to what God has made clear.

Live as if Jesus Christ really is Lord, because He is. Continue doing what He has called you to do, even when circumstances seem to argue otherwise.

The Christian life isn't lived primarily on the mountaintop.

We've got to learn to follow Jesus in the valley.

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