"It's Better Higher Up!"

Good morning, and welcome. I don't know about you, but some days just seem to be "one of those days." It seems nothing goes right, there does not seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel and if there is it's a train coming at you. Well cheer up, because it does get better, especially when you have Christ Jesus in your life. 


Not long ago there lived an old bedridden saint, and a Christian lady who visited her found her always very cheerful. This visitor had a wealthy lady friend, who constantly looked on the dark side of things, and was always cast down, although she was a professed Christian. She thought it would do this lady good to see the bedridden saint, so she took her down to the house. She lived up in the garret, five storeys up, and when they had got to the first storey the lady drew up her dress, and said—

"How dark and filthy it is!"

"It's better higher up," said her friend.
They got to the next storey, and it was no better; the lady complained again, but her friend replied—

"It's better higher up."

At the third floor it seemed still worse, and the lady kept complaining; but her friend kept saying—

"It's better higher up."

At last they got to the fifth storey, and when they went into the sickroom, there was a nice carpet on the floor, flowering plants in the window, and little birds singing. And there they found this bedridden saint—one of those saints whom God is polishing for His own temple—just beaming with joy.

The lady said to her, "It must be very hard for you to lie here."

She smiled, and said, "It's better higher up."

Yes! And if things go against us, my friends, let us remember that "it's better higher up." - Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations.


Eph 3:20 ~ Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,