Feet Made To Walk On High Hills

Habakkuk 3:17-19

 

Habakkuk was a prophet within the Old Testament, but his words ring as true today as then. He was distressed about the state of the nation of Judah. Rebellious behavior had rendered them worthy of punishment. God raised up the Chaldeans to administer that punishment. Judah is nonproductive and cut off. There is no blossom nor fruit; failed labor and no yield; the fold and the stalls are empty (there are other places Judah wants to be).


Habakkuk's response to this revelation: "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength. He will make my feet like deer's feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills." Must be some serious hills to walk on, the feet to which require God's creative formation. I suppose that, out of the Chaldean instrument, a remnant was produced. Habakkuk, and they, carried on in righteousness.

I am impressed that His instruments continue to this day. Now Jesus Christ is the great High Priest to administer the instrument. "I in them, and You in Me; (so) that they may be made perfect in One   (the Father and the Son), and that the world may know that You have sent Me (because of the like testimonies of those who agree with Habakkuk), and have loved them as you have loved Me; .....that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me
(John 17:23,24).


"Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."(Matthew 7:14)

But! The gate is open to all those who are willing.