For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God? It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way blameless. He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places. Psalm 18:31-33
Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food…Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds' feet, and He will make me to walk upon my high places. Habakkuk 3:17-19
I leave thee never; thou art not alone, And with thine own and thee Mine angels dwell: Possess thy soul in patience; freely give Me love for love, and all shall yet be well.
The time is short, they that now weep, ere long Shall be as though they wept not: they that mourn Be comforted, for I will comfort them; And sweet shall be their glad thanksgiving song. Author Unknown
I think of Wordsworth's lines, in which he describes a natural lady, made by Nature herself: "She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs." And it is this buoyancy, this elasticity, this springiness that the Lord is waiting to impart to the souls of His children, so that they may move along the ways of life with the light steps of the fawn.
Some of us move with very heavy feet. There is little of the fawn about us as we go along the road. There is reluctance in our obedience. There is a frown in our homage. Our benevolence is graceless, and there is no charm in our piety, and no rapture in our praise. We are the victims of "the spirit of heaviness." And yet here is the word which tells us that God will make our feet "like hinds' feet." He will give us exhilaration and spring, enabling us to leap over difficulties, and to have strength and buoyancy for the steepest hills. Let us seek the inspiration of the Lord. "It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way blameless."
J.H. Jowett My Daily Meditation~1914
Methinks these words are worthy of being written as with a diamond on a rock forever. Oh, that by Divine grace they might be deeply engraven on each of our hearts! That in the day of his distress he would fly to God; that he would maintain a holy composure of spirit under this dark dispensation, nay, that in the midst of all he would indulge in a sacred joy in God, and a cheerful expectation from Him. Heroic confidence! Illustrious faith! Unconquerable love!
P. Doddridge~1795
