Habakkuk 3:19, The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, And makes me walk on my high places.
Ps. 18:33, He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, And sets me upon my high places.
Take a look at these verses in Ps. 68:15 – 16, “A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan. Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain which God has desired for His abode? Surely, the Lord will dwell there forever.”
Notice that the Mountain of Bashan is a mountain range that has many peaks, and it is a true mountain of God. Even though it is a true mountain of God, it still looks with envy at The Mountain where God abides forever. This is like the Christian life that many poor Christians live. Even though they have genuine encounters with God, their life is like peaks and valleys, and as they look back on their time as a believer, their history is marked by wonderful peaks which were from God, but still did not represent an abiding place. If that has been the story of your Christian life, then I know that in your heart, you long for an abiding place where you live on the mountain top of encounter with His presence continuously. The reality is, because you are in Christ, you are seated in the heavenly places with him already. That was true about you the moment you became a Christian, and the Lord, who set you on high places, spiritually gave you Hinds feet so that you can live and walk in those high places even in the midst of a fallen world, and the routine of daily living. The mountain in the Old Testament that was God’s abiding place was Mount Zion, where the Temple Mount was. God lived in the midst of his people by dwelling in the temple and the holy of holies. The New Testament tells us that as a born-again believer, you are the temple of God, and you are the holy of holies, and therefore you are the perpetual abiding place of God, in Christ, by the Holy Spirit. You have already been postured, and positioned to live, not from peak to peak, but on the high places in the presence of the Lord. This is not true about you as a believer because you broke through by some fresh encounter with the Lord, but this is true about you because He broke through and made you His dwelling place and set your feet on high places, the heavenly places, in Christ. It is so important that you understand this: this is not someplace you’re trying to achieve (this place of living in perpetual encounter in the spiritual heights), but this is a place He has achieved for you in Him. Your breakthrough is just a breakthrough of seeing it, celebrating it, abiding in it, and manifesting it.
Is. 38:14, “Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, by my security.”
If this verse represents you, and the Dove, Holy Spirit, has caused your eyes to look wistfully to the heights of holy habitation because you long to dwell in the highest places of perpetual encounter, then rejoice because you have been there from the beginning because of what Jesus did.