Title: Make My Feet Like a Deer
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Bible Text: Psalm 18:33-37
my feet like a deer
Deer don't have a gallbladder. He doesn't even have a gallbladder! It's good to hear that. Because people forget the past in order to gain the future. It's good to empty your mind right now. People can change themselves. The simplest way is to change the words. Words change people. Never say that you can't afford it. I feel bad! Don't say that. Grieving and complaining can lead to an unhappy and annoying life. As fire breeds fire, so grievance breeds unhappiness. These are the words that change yourself.
“The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he will make my feet like deer, and he will make me walk on my heights” (Hab 3:19).
He makes my feet rise on high places.
“You make my feet like a doe’s, and you set me on my high” (verse 33). The deer’s foot is a symbol of light feet. If it's thick and big like an elephant's leg, it won't speed up. The doe is an example of a fast-moving beast. “Let us put away every burden and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race set before us” (Hebrews 12:1).
Augustine interpreted the deer's feet to mean to throw off the clutter and run lightly. In order to climb to a high place, you must first go light and build strength.
Ancient heroes were agile and agile. Otherwise, he would not be treated like a hero. “There were some who returned to David, all of them warriors, accustomed to battle, able to use shields and spears. His face is like a lion, and his speed is like a deer on the mountain” (1 Chronicles 12:8).
The hind legs of a doe are said to be more upright and run faster than the hind legs of a stag. The doe's hooves are particularly hard. Its hard hooves can run well on rough and rocky mountains. The doe has feet as hard as iron, indicating that it can run at any speed.
As we unite with God, we can be refreshed and live a victorious life. I cannot climb a steep and high mountain on my own. “Blessed is he whose strength is in the Lord, and whose heart is the highway to Zion” (Psalm 84:5).
I can reach “on high” because “you make my feet like a doe.” He puts me on a ridge and makes me stand on top. “The high mountains are for the goats” (Psalm 104:18). There are high mountains for the goats to climb.
Mountains sometimes mean suffering. There are always mountains to climb in life. The mountain is steep and dangerous. I'm afraid of how I can climb that mountain. Don't look at your own power, look at the power of God.
“He who waits for the Lord will find refreshment... He will run and not get weary and will not grow weary” (Isaiah 40:31).
“He made my steps wide” (verse 36). To walk wider, you need the strength to step forward. Isaiah said, “I will make all my mountains a road, and I will build my highways” (Isaiah 49:11).
I hope that your steps will be as strong as a doe, and that you will use the mountains as a path and climb to the top.
You keep me from stumbling.
“You have made me not stumble” (verse 36b). To stumble is to stumble and fall. Slip and fall and trip over trivial obstacles. Slipping is dangerous. You may be injured or you may be killed by a fall.
Mountaineer Mi-Young Ko, who conquered the highest peak of the Himalayas at 8,126 m, stumbled and died while descending. After you put all your energy into going up, your energy goes down. I was exhausted and my tension was relieved, and I seem to have fallen.
Jesus was very wary of stumbling. “If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away. It is good that one of your bodies is gone and your whole body is not thrown into hell; and if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is profitable for the body to perish and not be cast into hell” (Matthew 529-30).
While no one's body parts are each insignificant, the eyes and hands are the most important. But if an eye or a hand is dragging me in a dangerous sin, I'm telling you to remove the eye and cut off the hand. That is, it cannot lead to ruin.
In December 1914, a fire broke out in Edison's laboratory in New Jersey, USA. Millions of dollars in property damage. All the journals and research records that I had kept throughout my life were burned.
Edison looked up the next morning as he saw all his dreams and hopes turned to ashes.
“Disaster isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it burned all my mistakes at once. I thank God for allowing me to start over at this age.” I was 67 years old at the time. Everything is on fire, but still ambitious and goal-oriented. Those who live in the sunshine do not fail in life. “Let the sunlight of the soul shine near to Jesus, and let the clouds of this world rise and do not cover it.”
Don't be discouraged. Don't let others stumble. “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the deep sea… woe to him who causes him to stumble” (Matthew 18:6-7). )
A person who causes a stumble is like a person who has a millstone tied around the neck of a living person and thrown into the sea. He can't come out alive. He who stumbles is a complete murderer.
The deer's feet do not stumble. God does not let our feet stumble. Just as God makes us not to stumble, so let us not cause others to stumble.
He makes me overtake my enemies.
“I will pursue my enemies, and I will not turn back until they are destroyed” (verse 37). This means that the enemy will repel them with no time to look back.
“Children, you are of God, and you have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4). God will bruise Satan and cause him to fall at our feet.
China's Mao Zedong is regarded as a militant figure who destroys rather than surrenders. He was aggressive and had a strong desire to win. It is said that 70,000 people died during the Cultural Revolution, but only a few were killed.
God does not stop chasing away our enemies so they can run away, but pursues them to the end and destroys them.
People prefer to catch fish than to eat the fish they catch. I fish for fun and enjoy hunting itself. Hunting is a savage's job for food, but for English gentlemen, hunting is an entertainment and a sport. Hunting keeps people focused.
The Apostle Paul said, “Not that I have already obtained it or that I have finished it, but I run to seize the one for which I was captured by Christ Jesus. ” (Philippians 3:12-14)
There are three kinds of people. There are people who burn themselves. There was no fire, but if you light it, someone will burn it. No matter how much you try to light it, it will not burn. “I have come to cast fire on the earth; if it were already kindled, what would I want?” (Luke 12:49)
He's more flamboyant than smart. A person with passion and enthusiasm. You must release the energy of passion. The competitive spirit of chasing and overtaking the leader improves your skills. The desire to win is a state of being emotionally stimulated and excited. It's like being addicted to drugs. In other words, it is immersive. Immersion is ignoring the negative things within yourself and achieving a high level of concentration. It is spiritually ecstasy.
David ascended to the throne at the age of 30 and reigned for 40 years. David has always been a victor. His victory was all possible because God was with him. All enemies that attacked him were defeated.
There was a mountaineer named Bok Jin-young. As a member of the Korea-Japan Everest expedition in 1990, he conquered the summit. However, due to prolonged lag at the top, he suffered frostbite toe and lost all of his toes. He lost ten toes to gain the joy of conquering Everest. It's hard to walk without toes, but one day while I was thinking about how to live, I saw a man cleaning a building with a rope hanging. Jinyoung Bok said, "That's what I'm going to do," and the climber decided to become a "ropeman." He founded a company that specializes in cleaning mountain climbers and skyscrapers. It soon became a famous company in the field.
Let's all pray like this.
“O God, as a deer thirsts for streams,
Make my soul thirst for you!
Let him climb on a high place like a deer's foot, and he will not stumble,
Don't let anyone stumble!
Help me to become a victor in catching up with the enemy devil together with our leader Jesus.