The High Places

LORD, take me to the High Places, the places where you dwell.

Let me walk and do not stumble, nor grow weary, let me sail…

Where gentle breezes lift my spirit to paths where only few have trod

I’m on my way, none can stop me from seeing the face of God~

Upon the High Places where I look on the world below,

Sights and scenes from heaven, Oh Abba, I am desperate to go…

In solitude and quiet, over rocks and stoney trail…

To the High Places, take me there and let me dwell…

Where only those who dare, go, want to honor you and bestow~

Kisses of adoration, songs of deliverance, worship in spirit and in truth

Because there, I know, you give secrets to your loves, those who long to stay~

Close to you in heaven, LORD I pray…

Take this life you’ve given me and do with it as you will~

Only help me Jesus to walk to the High Places and there be still!

One true and blessed creator~

One maker of heaven and earth~

One keeper of my soul, even from my birth…

On the High Places, I will bring the sacrifice of love and praise and life!

Take me higher blessed redeemer so that I am restored…

To go to the low places, to tell others, you are the Highest LORD!

Only on the High places can we truly see, the world is so much bigger than you or me!

Climbing always upward there are obstacles I will meet; I’ll rest, for a little while, at my Savior’s feet…

Joy will come in the morning; there I’ll take my seat!

What splendor! As far as the eye can see…is more than I’d imagined it would ever be.

The High Places with Jesus is only the beginning, of what’s in store for you and me.

A city placed upon a hill cannot be hid. Jerusalem, the city of our God, set upon a high place. Jesus was hung on Golgotha’s hill, a high place. It takes strength, courage, determination, perseverance, and an unsatiable hunger, for more of God, to make us climb the high places. But oh, the joy, the ecstasy of the journey when you stand upon the High Places of God, it cannot be taken from you. ‘Come away with me my beloved let us walk upon mine high places…’

~Marla Shaw O’Neill January 24, 2023

Matthew 5:14 New King James Version ¹⁴ “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 

Song of Solomon 2:10-13 New King James Version ¹⁰ My beloved spoke, and said to me: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away. ¹¹ For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. ¹² The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land. ¹³ The fig tree puts forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grapes Give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away! 

Habakkuk 3:18-19 New International Reader’s Version ¹⁸ But I will still be glad because of what the Lord has done. God my Savior fills me with joy. ¹⁹ The Lord and King gives me strength. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He helps me walk on the highest places.