For fun and adventure there are people that find rock climbing exhilarating.That is, reaching the peak and surmounting the hard work of pulling up their weight .If climbing as a team, often some members will offer a helping hand to lift those struggling to climb. For the skilled rock climbers they will have climbing equipment. Climbing cams fit into cracks and gaps in rocks where they’ll grip to provide protection and support. Once these latch on some rocks high above.
What heights are you trying to reach? Have you talked to God about them? Are you trying to do so by your strength?
God desires us to increase, to progress to go up higher.Its not in His will for us to remain stagnant with no growth but to increase and to move forward or even higher. I am reminded of a favorite verse Proverbs 4:18 – But the path of the just is like the shining sun,that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
Ascending up often involves a stretch or effort of some sort. It’s much easier to descend, the force of gravity helps in the descent anyway.
In Habakkuk 3:19 we read. that the Lord is my strength he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.
Unlike people climbing rocks with the help of climbing Cams or other people supporting them, a deer can move it’s hind feet to the same spot its front feet are and be able to stand without falling. It’s able to maintain its balance and therefore support its weight on two feet instead of four. This animal is not only graceful while running or climbing but also in the balancing act when standing still on heights.
Reminds me of a video I watched shot at a national park in south Africa. A herd of deers perched on some precariously positioned rocks .Beneath and above the rocks on which they stood, were a pack of wild dogs. No matter how much the dogs barked at the deers to frighten them,the deers stood still -on the rick.
This is what the psalmist paints for us in psalms 18:31.For who is God beside the Lord and who is the rock except our God? He goes on to say in part 2 of psalms 61:1- lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Having the Lord as our rock means anchoring our lives and all different facets of our lives on steady ground and not sinking ground like sand. Would you confidently say that yours is built on the rock?
David reiterates the very word Habakkuk tells us in psalms 18:33 in the New living translation bible version reads-He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.
In the balancing act that life may demand of you as you climb up, you can trust the lord to make firm your steps as you delight in him. That though you may stumble, perhaps as you scale up, you will not fall for the lord will uphold you with his hand. ( Psalms 37:23).
Could we agree in prayer?
Father in Jesus name, we ask that you would lead us & Show us areas of our lives that you are calling us higher. Give us not only the courage to do so but the grace to balance on our high places that you enable us to reach. That you would cause us to be sure footed and make our steps firm. Lord Jesus, continually remind us to rely on you alone as you uphold us with your righteous right hand. I pray that we may never take credit for reaching any heights.
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