{"id":2584,"date":"2013-04-25T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:06:57","slug":"god-give-me-feet-for-my-path-not-a-path-for-my-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/04\/god-give-me-feet-for-my-path-not-a-path-for-my-feet.html","title":{"rendered":"God give me FEET for my PATH, not a PATH for my FEET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have never learned about the Ibex, this video is stunning and very helpful in understanding the Psalms&#8217; prayer that God would give him hind&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Amazing Survival Abilities Of The Ibex\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdsZz8StyV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Introduction:<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wasn\u2019t that video from the BBC video amazing. \u00a0\u00a0Deer that can literally walk on the side of mountains. \u00a0While I was in Israel, I was able to see the type of deer in the Middle East that have a similar ability. \u00a0The deer are much more like a Ram. \u00a0The Ibex. \u00a0Here is a photo I took of one in the middle east. \u00a0\u00a0Imagine having the ability in life to jump and handle such rugged Terrain:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Nd0U1FzPH4fVGGpghuOl6b6VFGkze2GuxmD9thOOSZB7IZQbdWBndITavTLXxwNfBgobqtgLPh9q5BjlmUKYrxNX7-12alOChaAWzMnWH_0vH8aL-V4\" alt=\"\" width=\"435px;\" height=\"245px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Stable Footing Comes from an Unstable Craving<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you have that can give you strength in unstable times?<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Your parents relationship is deteriorating<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Your health has some uncertainty<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Your kids are not obeying like they used to.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Your spouse has changed since having kids&#8230; Since empty nest.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You feel stuck between raising teenagers and trying to find time to care for your parents who can\u2019t drive and need help with the essentials.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You have a big deal that took a bad turn<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You got a subpoena to appear in court.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You find yourself in new territory of temptation that is really drawing you in.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s during these times of instability, we long and look for something to anchor ourselves into. \u00a0\u00a0What can we anchor ourselves to that will sustain us, strengthen us, and help us in difficulty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">God offers us a stable footing in times of instability.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s look at both aspects, a Stable Footing and an Unstable Craving.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I. A Stable Footing<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Psalms 18:33 \u00a0He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here David described how God prepared him for battle, giving him strength, agility, and efficiency; how God gave him victory over his enemies, pursuing, crushing, and destroying them The predominant thought throughout these verses is that David attributed every ability and victory of his to the LORD. Everything he had done and everything he now enjoyed was due to the Lord\u2019s enabling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong>The picture above comes from En Gedi, the very area David wrote many of these psalms as he was hiding from Saul. \u00a0\u00a0He literally was hiding and lurking in the mountain caves hiding from an enemy out to get him. \u00a0\u00a0As he looked at the mountains all around him. All the jagged edges and points, David thought, \u201cThis is what life is like!! \u00a0Tough, Rough, Difficult&#8230; \u00a0I could ask God to \u201cflatten the mountains in my life&#8230;\u201d \u00a0But Instead I am praying for Stable Feet. \u00a0I want the ability to walk up cliffs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps you remember the story of Terry Anderson from the Lebanon hostage situation&#8230;. He found that God and having others \u201csuffering with him\u201d was the secret to survival in the book SURVIVOR\u2019S CLUB. God gave him stable footing in the most difficult situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/files\/2013\/03\/6-Terry-Anderson-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2585\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/201\/2013\/03\/6-Terry-Anderson-a-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0The gun at his ear was the first clue, followed by a rough shove into the backseat of the green Mercedes. Terry Anderson remembers thinking: I am in deep shit. I am in real bad trouble. And it&#8217;s not going to be over soon. His instinct was absolutely right. The Associated Press correspondent in Lebanon would be blindfolded, chained to a wall, and held hostage for 2,454 days. Early on the morning of March 16, 1985, Anderson had just finished playing tennis with a friend in West Beirut. On a narrow road, he encountered three scruffy men with guns. &#8220;Get in. I will shoot,&#8221; one man said, pointing the pistol at his head. He hurled Anderson to the floor and threw an old blanket over him. After a short drive, Anderson was bound in tape, blindfolded with a filthy strip of cloth, and interrogated. Later he was chained to a steel cot with his hands and feet in shackles. He could not stand, let alone sit up straight. He was forced to relieve himself in a putrid plastic bottle next to the bed. After twenty-four days prostrate on the metal frame, Anderson thought he would go mad. He told one of his captors: &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this anymore. I&#8217;m not an animal. I am a human being. You can&#8217;t treat me like this.&#8221; &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; the guard asked. &#8220;A book. A Bible . . . You must loosen these chains. I will go crazy.&#8221; The next day, Anderson&#8217;s restraints were relaxed, and they brought him a brand-new red Bible. They let him take off his blindfold to read for thirty minutes. He savored the smell of the fresh ink, the new binding, and the first words of Genesis: In the beginning . . . When we speak, Anderson is finishing a home-cooked lunch of pasta and salad. He&#8217;s drinking a glass of South African pinotage, a red wine. He keeps seven hundred bottles in his cellar, and there&#8217;s room to grow. It can hold three thousand. He lives on a 250-acre ranch in Athens County, Ohio, where life is good.* He boards and trains about a dozen horses. Earlier in the morning, he tried to teach some manners to a two-year-old Missouri fox trotter named Scheherazade. Now he&#8217;s looking out over a two-acre pond, horse pastures, stables, and paddocks. I ask him how he and the other hostages survived all those days in captivity. &#8220;We all had to reach inside ourselves to ?and whatever we had,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;It is extraordinary what people are capable of doing.&#8221; A marine in Vietnam, Anderson was a correspondent on three continents and reported on every kind of natural and human disaster. In his long career in journalism, he regrets that he didn&#8217;t write more about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. His most fascinating laboratory was his captivity in Lebanon, where he met nine other hostages. He&#8217;s kept careful track of the others over the years. Of roughly twenty long-term hostages who made it home, Anderson says, one went straight to a mental hospital and never emerged while another spent ten years in and out of institutions. &#8220;All of us were damaged in some ways,&#8221; he says, &#8220;but I believe we have recovered well..\u201d &#8220;Survival is one thing,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;Survival with grace and dignity is another.&#8221; Anderson believes one of the greatest surprises of his ordeal was the way his fellow hostages got through the very worst without compromising their decency and humanity. He remembers some of his worst days when he wanted to give up, when he couldn&#8217;t face any more abuse, isolation, or the revolting bowls of fatty lamb and rice. &#8220;I can&#8217;t do this, God,&#8221; he would say. &#8220;I&#8217;m finished. I surrender.&#8221; &#8220;But at the bottom,&#8221; he writes in his powerful memoir, Den of Lions, &#8220;in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth\/light\/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.&#8221; Anderson believes that he reached this state of grace once or twice. &#8220;A few hours later, it fades, and the anger and frustration and longing are back,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;But the memory is there, the sense of presence. And sometimes the place is reached again, briefly. Not often, but sometimes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Meanwhile, the hours are endured, the days gotten through. And the nights are spent in prayer, and thought, and the effort to get back to that place.&#8221; We all can find this kind of power in ourselves, Anderson believes. It&#8217;s there. Inside us. Waiting to be released.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Terry found that God\u2019s word and God\u2019s promises were the power he needed to have a stable footing. \u00a0\u00a0That is exactly what David is speaking about in this Psalms when God delivers him from an out of control jealous father in law who has been hunting him. \u00a0\u00a0David says that God\u2019s word and way helped him know what to do<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Psalms 18:28 -30 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">For You will light my lamp; \u00a0The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. \u00a0\u00a0For by You I can run against a troop, \u00a0By my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, His way is perfect; \u00a0The word of the LORD is proven; \u00a0\u00a0He is a shield to all who trust in Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">David says that he can run against armies and leap over walls when he follows God\u2019s way. \u00a0\u00a0Why is this so key&#8230; \u00a0\u00a0David has been hiding in a cave, Saul who is trying to kill him comes into the cave to use the bathroom. \u00a0Talk about vulnerable. \u00a0\u00a0David pulls out his knife. His men give him the hand signal that says, \u201cKILL HIM KILL HIM.\u201d \u00a0But david wants to do things God\u2019s way, even in his difficult situation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He reaches out and -instead of stabbing Saul- he cuts off the corner of his garment. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As Saul returns to the army, David will come out and say, \u201cLook! I could\u2019ve murdered you. I could\u2019ve taken revenge. I could\u2019ve been bitter for how you\u2019ve treated me&#8230;. But I didn\u2019t. \u00a0I showed you grace by sparing your life. I gave you mercy. \u00a0\u00a0I did it God\u2019s way. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am trying to operate my life according to God\u2019s way and his will&#8230; And that is giving me a stable footing. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ironically, Saul had lost his way for not following God\u2019s plan and instead held on to hatred and jealousy. \u00a0The reason David cut the corner of his garment was very intentional. \u00a0For a Jewish leader, they knew that obeying God meant that they were under the protection of God often described as being under the corner of his garment. \u00a0David was saying, \u201cyou are not under God\u2019s corner of protection by the way you are living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We all have something we look to for our footing. \u00a0It\u2019s the \u201cthing\u201d we go to for rest, comfort, and a sense of identity. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We all sacrifice and lean in on everything. . \u00a0\u00a0There are people in the room who are saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want God. I want to be free\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t kid yourself. \u00a0We all live for something. We sacrifice for it. \u00a0\u00a0You have to live for something. You are in service to something.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If our career is the footing, it will drive you into the ground.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If the love of one person is the security.. But if they fall apart.. it will devastate you&#8230; If they reject you, you fall apart.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you say, \u201cI am independent person\u201d \u00a0I don\u2019t need God. I don\u2019t need anything. \u00a0You \u00a0for my stability but myself. \u00a0That means you are living for, and sacrificing for yourself. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t give my heart to anyone and I belong to myself.\u201d \u00a0You will die lonely and will sacrifice to the altar of your own independence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you say, I live to help others and be a good person. \u00a0What a great thing&#8230; But is that a stable footing? \u00a0\u00a0Are you good enough some of the time? All the time? \u00a0Do you really live up to your own standards? \u00a0If your footing is your good works, you\u2019ll feel like a good honorable person at one moment, and then when you are not good, you\u2019ll either be crushed, or you\u2019ll justify your bad behavior, or become a perfectionist, or control freak, or give up from the pressure of trying to turn good works into a stabling footing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an outstanding figure in the events during and after the Second World War. \u00a0In early 1942, when leading outnumbered United States forces in the Philippines, General MacArthur prayed this prayer for his son Arthur many times during his morning devotions: \u201cBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. \u00a0Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. \u00a0And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0DOuglas knew the importance of building into his son the importance of a STable Footing.<\/p>\n<p>Grace from God is THE stable footing. \u00a0\u00a0God is infinitely kind, wise, and loving. \u00a0And when your security and identity is anchored to Him. \u00a0\u00a0When you see that Christ died for you, gave you the gift of a new identity and acceptance before God. \u00a0\u00a0Now, let me clarify what the Bible says to make sure you hear how RADICAL it is. \u00a0When you become a Follower of Christ, God accepts you RIGHT NOW as if you were perfect in his eyes. \u00a0God doesn\u2019t TAKE SAINTS, He makes saints. \u00a0\u00a0The Bible says that RIGHT NOW you can be seen as a saint in God\u2019s eyes. \u00a0God gives you the GIFT of sainthood. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As weird as this might sound, Right now, I know God sees me as a saint. \u00a0\u00a0That gives me incredible footing, confidence, and boldness in my life. \u00a0\u00a0And yet, if I am tempted to get arrogant, egocentric, or take credit, the same gift immediately humbles me and says, \u201cIt was a gift, you were incapable of it on your own.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is the stable footing that tells the person who is beating themselves up and has a bad self image that \u201cChrist was beat up enough for you&#8230; You can stop.\u201d \u00a0Yes, there are bad things you\u2019ve done that are probably worthy of being beat up for&#8230; But he took it. \u00a0So be free from fear, self-hatred, and self loathing. \u00a0you can be accepted RIGHT NOW based on Christ\u2019s work. \u00a0\u00a0Do you see how stable, confidence and powerful this is. \u00a0\u00a0You have hind\u2019s feet. You \u201cstick\u201d to the mountain because you know God is with you&#8230; Not in a \u201cGod is with everyone way\u201d \u00a0but a \u201cGod is living in me\u201d because I invited him to way. \u00a0You have hind\u2019s feet because you don\u2019t know \u201cgod loves everyone\u201d so he loves me&#8230; That won\u2019t change your heart. That\u2019s a big yawner. \u00a0\u00a0You know this God died for you, chased after you, pursued you, and now lives in you because you received his gift of adoption, peace, joy, and death on the cross.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0For more information, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godonomics.com\">www.godonomics.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have never learned about the Ibex, this video is stunning and very helpful in understanding the Psalms&#8217; prayer that God would give him hind&#8217;s feet. &nbsp; Introduction: Wasn\u2019t that video from the BBC video amazing. \u00a0\u00a0Deer that can literally walk on the side of mountains. \u00a0While I was in Israel, I was able&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>God give me FEET for my PATH, not a PATH for my FEET - Godonomics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/04\/god-give-me-feet-for-my-path-not-a-path-for-my-feet.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"God give me FEET for my PATH, not a PATH for my FEET - Godonomics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you have never learned about the Ibex, this video is stunning and very helpful in understanding the Psalms&#8217; 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