When you are treading on the mountaintops of challenges and the valleys of fear, do you see Jesus’ white flag of victory waving across the horizon of your life? Or are you too caught up with the realities of your situation?
Do you see your victory beyond your seemingly great troubles?
Maybe you are so tired of fighting your own battles that all you can think of and see are the challenges building greater walls around you with no way out.
Stop for a moment, turn your focus away from yourself and your situation and reconsider the good news of Habakkuk 3:19:
The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds’ feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!
The Lord is…
My Strength. He is the source where all my power and endurance come from. My ability to endure a battle is not based on myself and my own resources, but on Jesus and His endless supply.
My personal bravery. He is the source of my boldness and might. The one who gives me the courage to tread on high grounds. That is my Jesus who gives and does all of that for me.
And my invincible army. He is fighting all my battles — the ones I know about as well as those I will never see or know of. He is there before me to quench the fiery darts of the enemy. He is there to protect me from all the intended harm the enemy wishes to cause me, and He is there to cover me from behind so that only goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Even when I have no idea what is happening behind the scenes, Jesus always does.
Do you realize that this is God’s reality for you?
Have your fears, your thoughts, or your words maybe come in the way of what you are meant to have? Maybe you have reached a place where it does not feel like God listens and you can familiarize yourself with the words in Habakkuk 1:2-3:
How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?
See what the Lord has given you:
He makes my feet like hinds’ feet…
The reference to the hinds’ feet is significant in that a hind is a female red deer. Red speaks of blood or giving life. Life produces the fruit that makes us different from the world (Galatians 5:22-23). The qualities through the fruits of the Spirit that we obtain enable us to produce different lives from those of the world.
The hinds’ feet are very skinny and do not appear strong or useful.
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The hinds’ feet have two main purposes, which are to run fast (Proverbs 18:10) and to make it easy for the dear to climb up and to remain in high places of the mountains. The hind is able to scale unusually difficult terrain and elude predators. A hind will leap from rocks without losing footing, suggesting that those with hinds’ feet are able to overcome things easily and elegantly. This aligns with God’s plan for us to enter His fullness and to remain there. We are not to be thrown off track by difficult circumstances, but to rise above them with Him. The reference, therefore, to a hind’s feet is a symbol of God equipping us to be Him on the earth.
and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk]…
The Lord will make us walk through our circumstances in victory if we surrender to Him. He will not let us get caught in them and be immobilized by our fears. He will make us walk in spite of the circumstances we are facing.
… and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!
God does not equip us with His Holy Spirit to remain stagnant, but to grow and develop in our walk with Him so that we can enter and remain in His fullness every day.
The high places make reference to a life walked out day by day from a place with God that is different from anything we’ve known before and where God is made manifest in us so that others are drawn to Him.
I would like to invite you to bring your circumstances, your challenges, your thoughts, your tears, or whatever it is that is taking up your time and surrender them to God. And while you’re at it, see your victory in Him.
Make Jesus your reality by walking in His truth for you that you were made to thrive above your challenges and to walk in His fullness every day, no matter your circumstances.
