I'm afraid of heights and get a serious case of vertigo every time I cross a bridge. So, imagine me trying to navigate the rim of the Grand Canyon trail on my honeymoon. It's a narrow walking trail, loaded with travelers, with a shear drop on one side of almost two miles down. My hard shoes tended to slip on the loose gravel. It was all I could do to hug the wall and keep moving. Then a goat hopped onto the trail observing me with curiosity. The outside edge of his hoof is hard and protective on the sharp rocks, but the inside is soft and fleshy allowing him to feel what is under its feet. He bounded fearlessly from shelf to shelf, along impossibly steep angles as if he was suspended on a bungee. He was made to do it...I wasn't. That much was clear.
Before I knew the Lord, I hugged the wall of my life just as tight as I did in the Grand Canyon. I built high walls between me and other people, fretted about the future, and desperately need to be in control. The world made me cynical and pride kept me trusting in my own intellect. I had hard shoes on but wasn't making much progress along the trail. These days, my life in Christ has given me "hind's feet in high places". Life is hard, but in the most difficult circumstances the Lord continually enables me to bound fearlessly along impossibly steep and sheer cliffs, just like I was made to do it.
He's changed me, not the Grand Canyon. Like Habbakuk...I can look at all the evil and sorrow and injustice in the world and still feel like singing.
"The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my high places. For the choir director, on my stringed instruments." Habbakuk 3:19
