My soul thirsteth for God

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. – Habakkuk 3:19

David tells us that God has strengthened his feet as that of a deer.  He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.(Ps 18:33).   When ever God refers to the spiritual experience He always refers to the birds and animals.   Here God mentions the deer.  God promises that He will strengthen your feet that of the deer and place you in high places.   The swiftness of feet of the deer gives us the pleasure of being in the high places.   Your spiritual involvement should aim at reaching a higher level every day.   You must receive graces after graces.  Strength over strength.  Purity over purity.  As you grow old your physical strength diminishes.  But your inner spiritual man should be strengthening by the spirit of God day by day.    For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.(2Cor 4:16).   Caleb was filled with the grace of God.  When Joshua portioned the nation Caleb was very old physically but he was full of vigor spiritually.  As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.(Josh 14:11).  Beloved, you are pressed in all direction everyday in your life, so that you are not able to rise above the worldly pressures.  Looking at the mount of problems you become depressed and start grumbling about the life.  Some of you go to the extremes of depression and dejection.   Even the prophet Elijah himself under went such a situation at one point of time in his life.  But he was filled with the spirit by God.  His feet were strengthened as that of the deer.  Because of that strengthen he was able to walk for forty days and nights to reach the mount of God.  And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.   And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.(1Kings 19:7-8).  The same God who strengthens Elijah is able to strengthen you to place you in high places. 

When David was speaking about his spiritual experiace he always said that his soul panteth like a deer for God.  As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.(Ps 42:1).   In God’s creation by nature our souls crave for God.   Even though some people may say that there is no God, but when they face a serious crisis or danger the first word they exclaim is “O God”.  Because when God created man he has placed an instinct in his soul and spirit that he should always look for Him.  People seek for God in different situations.  Some in troubled times.  Some in sufferings and yet some in crisis.  Yet some others for name sake and for obligation look for God.  You should seek God just like the deer panteth for the water in the brooks.  When the deer are thirsty in the wilderness, the very smell of water draws them to the brook.  In the end with great effort and search the deer finds the water sources.  David had the similar craving towards God.  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?(Ps 42:2).  O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;(Ps 63:1).  In order that you should look for God at all times God permits wilderness, loneliness and such adverse situation in your life.  Seek Him first with sincere and devoted heart you will defiantly find him.   But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.(Deut 4:29).

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. - Isaiah 35:6.