How are you with heights? I’m not very good with them! For whatever reason I’m not equipped to deal with them and any time I’m up a high tower or hill I am really cautious with my footing, scared of slipping and plummeting to my doom! But not so deer. They are made for the high places, they at home up the hills. Living in Perthshire in Scotland we have many hills and many deer who roam on them with absolute steadiness and surety.

Spiritually, of course, God leads us through various terrain and if we walk close to him he equips us to be sure footed wherever he leads us, even in the highest heights and trickiest of places. The last picture Habakkuk paints in his prophetic book is one of absolute confidence in the God who strengthens us. After all the angst, uncertainty and questioning that went before he settles on the reality that in God, with God, through God we are on solid ground, no matter the circumstances.

Therefore, with the previous confession of verse 18 on his lips and embedded in his heart, when he says, “I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour.” he is taking the posture of one whose once slipping feet are now firmly placed on solid rock. That is the sort of faith which followers of Jesus need to have in these uncertain and often dark days. 

Prayer: 
Lord I thank you for the strength you give me every day to scale the mountains before me and to have hinds feet in high places. Let me keep my eyes on you as you keep my feet from stumbling. In Jesus’ name, Amen.