Height Words

For many reasons, the connotation of higher ground is, as far as I know, always positive. It may not be used during a positive experience. For example, "Move to higher ground" is probably an  indication that something is not quite the way it should be, but the actual "higher ground" is always the better place. The use of heights or higher ground is very biblical. I've seen "higher ground" phrases throughout the Bible, with a widespread inference that it is a protected place, a better place, a coveted spot. I like the idea of it so much that when I flip through my marked up Bible, I can find verses underlined or notes in the margin by words pertaining to being "lifted up" or "mighty rock," height words. The opposite lines used to indicate an undesirable state are words such as "I sink deep in mire." Mire is a bog or mud, and the term is used to indicate sinking, as in mud. That doesn't sound like something I want to do, so I put my focus on the heights.

One lyrical "height" verse I have  underlined in the book of Habakkuk is in chapter 3 verse 19. Habakkuk is a very short book that is difficult to spell even with the word zoomed in at eye level. Don't even ask me how to really say it because I have never ended it with anything that sounds like K. Verse 19 is the last verse of the book. It reads like this in my Bible:  "God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and makes me tread upon the heights." I like the idea of my feet being quick and graceful, not hoofed, and once again, if I am going to be somewhere special, I want it to be in the heights. The verse is, for me, a lovely thought. However, I read another version of the verse recently in a devotional book by Charles Stanley that gave me a brand new impression of Habakkuk 3:19. It's still a lovely thought, not because it makes me say, Ahhh...No, it's a lovely thought because it makes me laugh, and that is a wonderful thing, too.
Here is how it reads in his book. "The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.(heels?)" What's your visual on that?  lol

From Mary's Collection

Peace.

Love, Linda