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apple of His eye! That is how precious you are and how protected you
are. I hope when you look in the mirror and you start making yourself
pretty and fixing up your eyes, I hope you think, oh, I am the pupil of
God’s eyes. And when you look close into someone’s eyes and see
yourself, I hope you remember that when you look at God you are in His
eye. You are always in His eye.

Do not read these with your mind. They are precious, precious word
pictures. He is not trying to be poetic. He is trying to communicate His
heart.

“Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of Thy
wing.”

Of course, it makes it more interesting when you realize, who is going to
punch God in the eye? Think about it. He who touches you touches the
apple of His eye. How safe can you be? It is an awesome promise.
First figure. Wow! Praise God. Psalm 18:33,

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.”

Now, once again you have two figures here. Hinds’ feet and high places.
What are high places? You see, in the figure here He is just talking
about the rocky slopes. He is talking about steep places. Crags on the
mountain. Real high and dangerous terrain. Dangerous places. What is
a hind? You see, a hind is a female deer. The Bible mentions several
species of antelope and hind and bucks and roebucks and so on. The hart
is the male deer, and the hind is the female deer. What God is pointing
to is surefootedness. God has made the hind surefooted, nimble footed.

Their hooves are so constructed that not only do they hit the rock in the
right place, but they actually grip the rock. It is almost as if they have
suction cups. They really have soft pads surrounded by hard bony edges.
These rims, enable them to get a grip even in ice or snow or bare rock.
You have seen mountain goats that seem to be jumping and running on
these mountains as if they were on level ground.

I can just picture David as he ran from Saul for ten years. The Bible says
he was like a partridge hunted upon the mountain, and Saul brought his
whole army after him for ten years. I bet from time to time David would
look out and see one of these hinds jumping from rock to rock and being
so free. I can hear David saying, oh, Lord, give me hind’s feet. I need to
run, and I need to be safe. I am in a dangerous position here. And how
was David spared? He summarized his life with these words from