Mark 3:13

Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume because they are not called to the highest places in the ministry; but, reader, you should rejoice that Jesus calls whom He wills. If He should leave me to be a doorkeeper in His house, I will cheerfully bless Him for His grace in permitting me to do anything in His service.

The call of Christ’s servants comes from above. Jesus stands on the mountain, always above the world in holiness, earnestness, love, and power. Those whom He calls must go up the mountain to Him; they must seek to rise to His level by living in constant communion with Him. They may not be able to achieve classic honors or attain scholastic eminence, but they must, like Moses, go up into the mountain of God and have intimate communion with the unseen God, or they will never be equipped to proclaim the gospel of peace.

Jesus went apart to hold high fellowship with the Father, and we must enter into the same divine companionship if we would bless others. No wonder that the apostles were clothed with power when they came down fresh from the mountain where Jesus was. This morning we must endeavor to ascend the mountain of communion, that there we may be ordained to the life's work for which we are set apart.

Let us not see the face of any person today until we have seen Jesus. Time spent with Him is invested at blessed interest. We too will cast out devils and work wonders if we go down into the world girded with that divine energy which Christ alone can give.

It is no use going to the Lord’s battle until we are armed with heavenly weapons. We must see Jesus; this is essential. At the mercy seat we will linger until He manifests Himself to us as He does not to the world, and until we can truthfully say, “We were with Him in the Holy Mount.”