"Higher Ground"!  This wonderful hymn by Johnson Oatman, Jr. challenges me!  I don't want to be satisfied or content to stay where I am today in my spiritual journey.  I want to always be digging deeper and climbing higher in the things of God.

     "I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights I'm gaining every day;

Still praying as I'm onward bound, 'Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.'

      My heart has no desire to stay where doubts arise and fears dismay;

Though some may dwell where these abound, my prayer, my aim is higher ground.

      I want to live above the world, though Satan's darts at me are hurled;

For faith has caught the joyful sound, the song of saints on higher ground.

      I want to scale the utmost height and catch a gleam of glory bright;

But still I'll pray 'til heaven I've found, 'Lord, lead me on to higher ground.'

      Lord, lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven's table land,

A higher plain than I have found: Lord, plant my feet on higher ground."

May God bless you this week as you head out for Higher Ground!