Feet like the deer's

'He makes my feet like the deer's.' God enables his people to move swiftly and deftly through earth's tribulations. As the deer, darting through the forest, neither crashes into trees nor slips on rocks so shall the believer remain unharmed in the face of earth's emergencies and of death itself. Though hunted by Satan or stalked by the world and our own flesh we run our course by faith.

We are running amid the arrows of this life, some very poisonous. However, because of 'the feet of deer' which God has given us we always evade the final, fatal blow. How did Israel survive the successive brutalities of Babylon, of Persia, of Greece, and of Rome? For millennia true faith has survived on earth - only God knows how. The saints came safely to their appointed rest. All have had the gift of 'feet like the deer's'.

--Walter J. Chantry in "Habakkuk--A book for times of extreme crisis: Hab.3:17-19"Banner of Truth, Issue 531, December 2007