Hinds' Feet on High Places Devotional: The Original ... - Destiny Image

12 Hinds’ <strong>Feet</strong> On High Placesearth and during this life—able always to react to evil, tribulation,sorrow, pain, and every wrong thing in such a way that they wouldbe overcome and transformed into something to the praise andglory of God forever.As Christians we know, in theory at least, thatin the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that eventhe most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointlessand undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as gloriousopportunities for us to react to them in such a way that ourLord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, His ownlovely character.The Song of Songs expresses the desire implanted in everyhuman heart, to be reunited with God Himself, and to know perfectand unbroken union with Him. He has made us for Himself,and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction untilthey find it in Him.It is God’s will that some of His children should learn thisdeep union with Himself through the perfect flowering of naturalhuman love in marriage. For others it is equally His willthat the same perfect union should be learned through theexperience of learning to lay down completely this natural andinstinctive desire for marriage and parenthood, and accept thecircumstances of life which deny them this experience. Thisinstinct for love, so firmly implanted in the human heart, is thesupreme way by which we learn to desire and love God Himselfabove all else.But the High Places of victory and union with Christ cannotbe reached by any mental reckoning of self to be dead to sin,or by seeking to devise some way or discipline by which the willcan be crucified.The only way is by learning to accept, day by day,the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by a continuallyrepeated laying down of our own will and acceptance of His as it ispresented to us in the form of the people with whom we have tolive and work, and in the things which happen to us. Every acceptanceof His will becomes an altar of sacrifice, and every such surrenderand abandonment of ourselves to His will is a means offurthering us on the way to the High Places to which He desires tobring every child of His while they are still living on earth.