When you stand on a hill or a mountain the land around you opens up: you can see far and wide, waters, contours, inclines, plateaus.
Elevation brings vision but you lose the details.
In the valleys where the landscape constrains you, the details are revealed: the leaves, the springs, hidden gorges, location of fruit trees, the plants that heal, places of refuge.
In our walk of faith, often we seek the mountain tops and forget to value the valleys where the details of the kingdom are also revealed to us.
Mountains and valleys go together and we must explore both to receive a full understanding of the Kingdom of God.
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Arameans think the Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.’ ” 1 Kings 20:28