THE MOST HIGH GOD

“I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to You in Your name, O Most High. I will praise the Lord…and will sing praise in the name of the Lord Most High.” (Psalms 9:2)

“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those that knock it is opened.” (C.S. Lewis)

I would add to the above Lewis quote: Those that drink in joy will keep drinking and drinking until it becomes the central thing in their life. A new “high” for some.

As I write this the Jesus Revolution documentary  is playing in Theaters. It is about the Jesus Movement in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. When Pastor Chuck Smith asked a former hippie-drug user why so many of his generation were coming to Jesus to be save he responded, “Their looking for a new high.”

In the ministry of Teen Challenge that my brothers and I founded we had already heard and seen that ever hardcore addicts were looking for that very same high.  In the early 70s, during the hippie movement, people were using and “getting high” on a multiplicity of drug not just marijuana or heroin. 

My friend and co-worker Mike Zello, Sr. founded Teen Challenge in the Washington DC area. Mike worked for my brother David even before I did. He shared the following with me:

“Mind altering and mood changing drugs were commonly used as well. As a result some were admitted into psychiatric facilities. One such place was in Crownsville, Maryland.  We accepted patients from there into our Washington, D.C Adult and Teen Challenge Christian faith-based residential discipleship program.

One guy that arrived told me that he wound up in Crownsville because he was tripping on LSD and had a bad trip. He thought he was invincible and could drive through the stack of cars in front of him that were waiting for the red-light change. So, he floored the gas pedal and plowed into the cars. While with us, God delivered him from his addiction, healed his mind, saved him and filled him with the Holy Spirit. He said, “I got high on a lot of different kinds of drugs, but I have never been this high before. He began to read and enthusiastically study the Bible.

One of the verses he read was Psalm 57:2 

“I will cry to God Most High,

To God who accomplishes all things for me.”  

He said, “There it is! Now I know why I feel so good. With all the drugs I did, I never felt this high before.” He concluded that the reason why he felt so high was because he allowed God in  His life. He said, “God is the Most High God and you can’t get any higher than that!”

The amazing thing about God is that he can speak to us in the language and terminology we understand. In this respect I use two words that seem totally opposite each other; the word “drink” and the word “joy” these two words together I propose to show that stating joy is like what a drunk or drug addict experiences on a high that once true joy from The Most High God is tasted and experienced; that joy will win out every time. Discovering this come as a revelation to me. 

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