He makes me like a deer, which does not stumble. He helps me stand on the steep mountains. Psalm 18:33 (Life Application Study Bible)
Jesus Tells Us; You’ve seen a deer leaping through the forest, at least on television, or in a movie. But have you ever seen one stumble? You’ve seen goats balanced on bits of rock on steep mountainsides. But have you ever seen one fall? When you trust in Me, I can make you as surefooted as the deer, so that you don’t stumble as you face this life’s problems. And I can help you stand on the steep mountainsides of faith without slipping into sin. But first, you must trust Me. So, when everything seems to be going all wrong, stop. Take a deep breath. Tell Me that you trust Me. And tell Me about everything that is upsetting you. Then, leave all your troubles in My hands. Stay in touch with Me through short, simple prayers, thanking Me, trusting Me.
Jesus Concludes; Be happy in Me, because I am making you like a deer that doesn’t stumble.
Psalm 18:33; Job 13:15; Habakkuk 3:17-19
Footnotes Psalm 18:33; God doesn’t promise to eliminate challenges, instead, he promises to give us strength to meet those challenges. If he gave us no rough roads to walk, no mountains to climb, and no battles to fight, we would not grow. He does not leave us alone with our challenges, however. Instead, he stands beside us, teaches us, and strengthens us to face them.
Passage Job 13:15; Though he slays me, yet will I hope in him, I will surely defend my ways to his face.
Footnotes Job 13:4; Job compared his three friends to physicians who did not know what they were doing. They were like eye surgeons trying to perform open heart surgery. Many of their ideas about God were true, but they did not apply Job’s situation. They were right to say that God is just. They were right to say that God punishes sin. But they were wrong to assume that Job’s suffering was a just punishment for his sin. They took a true principle and applied it wrongly, ignoring the vast differences in human circumstances. We must be careful and compassionate in how we apply biblical condemnations to others, we must be slow to judge.
Passage Habakkuk 3:17-19; 17Though the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines, thought the olive crop fails, and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen, and no cattle in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my savior. 19The Sovereign LORD is my strength, he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
Footnotes Habakkuk 3:17-19; Crop failure and the death of animals would devastate Judah. But Habakkuk affirmed that even in the times of starvation and loss, he would still rejoice in the Lord. Habakkuk’s feelings were not dominated by the events around him, but by God’s ability to give him strength. When nothing makes sense and when your troubles seem to be more than you can bear, remember that God gives strength. Take your eyes off your difficulties and look to him.
Jesus Tells Us is from the Jesus Calling 365 devotions for kids.
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JOHANN GUTENBERG CIRCA 1398-1468
This entry celebrates the German printer, but it nods to many other craftsmen too. It acknowledges the man who refined paper in China more than a dozen centuries earlier, Cai Lun. It sources the thousands of Asian artisans who used this invention in block printing, a method of reproducing a written work with woodcuts and ink. It points to Bi Sheng, who invented movable type in the 11th century. And it even underscores the contributions of Laurens Janszoon Coster, or Panfilo Castaldi, two other Europeans who are sometimes sourced as having beaten Gutenberg to the crucial innovation, with which he is associated: printing multiple copies of a text from movable type. What these men and others clearly saw by the mid-15th century, what that block printing, with its frangible wood blocks which could only be used for a limited number of copies of a book, was even less practical than handwriting. The potential of printing lay in mass production. Gutenberg is a suitably elusive individual to be seen as the inventor of something that in fact had so many fathers. He was probably born in Mainz, took his mothers surname as was then customary when a woman had no other kinsmen to carry on her name, became a printer in his native city, lived for a time in Strasbourg, where he may have made his great breakthroughs in either 1437 or 1438.
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He was also bad at business, and eventually lost his press and types to Johann Fust in settlement of a debt. But Gutenberg realized that a printing system composed of movable type that you could set and fix, a press that could churn out multiple copies, and suitable ink and paper would be much more efficient than handwriting, or a block-printing operation. His books, including the so-called Mazarin, or Gutenberg Bible, proved the point, and soon literature, philosophy, poetry, propaganda, was proliferating in Europe, which began to progress socially at a speed unrealized by other sectors of the globe. Movable type was soon a tool of industry, of learning, of governing. Gutenberg gets the source.
Source: https://www.life.com/history/lifes-100-people-who-changed-the-world/ Page 86