Way too many people play far too close to the fence.  There is open pasture to inherit and the Holy mountain to climb.

There are those who like the idea of being thought of as a Christian.  But they refuse to make any commitment at all.  These love to wear the label while they live freely in the world.  They stay by the fence but they will not cross it.

There are those who have made a commitment to a body of professed believers.  But they refuse to go any farther toward the sovereign God.  They have crossed the fence but they will not part company with it.  Their folly will be evident by their lack of fruit.

The Lord teaches his people to head out into the pasture.  There is plenty of nourishing food and light.  It is a place of health.  Here a man may wrestle with what is true and what is false.

If one travels far enough, he will perceive the rocky crags.  Here a man is stripped of himself.  For no burden of self can climb the mountain of God.  “. . .if even an animal touches it it must be stoned to death or shot with arrows.”  Of this place there is little written.  For those who ascend rarely descend.  Not to mention that the language spoken on the mountain is not a familiar language to man.

By His Grace