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Psalm 18, “Thy gentleness has made me great.” Isn’t that a tremendous
thing? How did he do it? The answer is God gave him hind’s feet in
high places.
There is a set of Psalms we will look at as we go further into our studies,
and I call them Fugitive Psalms because they are written when David
was running from his enemies. When you read some of those fugitive
psalms and you see his faith and how alive he was and how safe he felt –
“Though ten thousand encamp around me, I will not fear; I will lay
down and sleep, I will rise up”, and so on. When you see that kind of
faith, you say, what made him like that? And the answer is God gave
him hind’s feet in dangerous places.

When I think about high places, of course, the picture is the rocky slopes.
But there are other high places we can apply this to. Places of
acceptance, places of respect. Those are high places. Places of honor, of
exaltation. Places of privilege, places of responsibility. Sometime God
puts His children in high places. You know, when you get put up in a
high place there is a temptation to get proud and there is a temptation to
fall from that high place. What is going to keep you from being proud
when God exalts you? And the answer is hind’s feet. God is going to
give you hind’s feet in high places so you will not stumble and trip and
fall. Sometime God raises His children and puts them in places of public
responsibility or sometime in politics or athletics or something like that.
They become maybe an author or a musician, an artist or a singer. What
is going to keep them from getting proud? Hind’s feet. God will give
you hind’s feet in high places.

One time I felt like God put me in a high place and I was a little nervous
about it and God gave me that verse. But I couldn’t pray it at first.
What I prayed was “I don’t want to be here”. “Change my place”. The
Holy Spirit said to me: “I do not change your place; I change your
feet”. He gives you the high places, but then He gives you hind’s feet
for those high places, and He will make you surefooted.

Look, please, at Psalm 56, verse 8. Here is another very precious word
picture,

“You have taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Your
bottle. Are they not in Your book?”

Once again you have these wonderful word pictures. Tears in a bottle,
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