Charles Spurgeon gives us insight into the high places and low places where we walk with God. There is never a moment that HE does not keep us when we trust in Him. Sometimes I worry about my grandson and his free-spirited nature. He loves life. He lives it to the fullest. Nights like tonight, sometimes I wake up and think of him and all he does. He's worked some 20 days straight--6 a.m. to 6 p.m. He now starts a shift working from 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. He's young. Yet, it concerns me that he is not getting proper rest and that his diet of burgers and fries may not be the sustaining foods he needs for energy. When I woke up tonight, he was on my mind and so I prayed for him as he is working.
Then I went to my facebook and saw photos of his Sunday afternoon relaxation with his fiance and friends. It was like God was telling me not to worry. That all life was in HIS hands and He was watching over my grandson. As he heads into each adventure (and you can bet his life is one non-stop adventure), I am at peace. I added some verses to his photos. That speak to his future.
Below is a devotional from Charles Spurgeon which I found profoundly fitting that came in my email today:
"The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hind's feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places" Habakkuk 3:19
This confidence of the man of God is tantamount to a promise, for that which faith is persuaded of is the purpose of God. The prophet had to traverse the deep places of poverty and famine, but he went down hill without slipping, for the LORD gave him standing. By and by he was called to the high places of the hills of conflict; and he was no more afraid to go up than to go down.
See! The LORD lent him strength. Nay, Jehovah Himself was his strength. Think of that: the almighty God Himself becomes our strength!Note that the LORD also gave him surefootedness. The hinds leap over rock and crag, never missing their footholds.
Our LORD will give us grace to follow the most difficult paths of duty without a stumble. He can fit our foot for the crags so that we shall be at home where apart from God we should perish.One of these days we shall be called to higher places still. Up yonder we shall climb, even to the mount of God, the high places where the shining ones are gathered. Oh, what feet are the feet of faith, by which, following the hind of the morning, we shall ascend into the hill of the LORD!
