"LIKE HINDS' FEET"
Illustration★★★★“He will make my feet like hinds’ feet,” that is, He will give lightfootedness in the else weary path of plodding life. The stag is the very emblem of elastic, springing ease, of light, bounding gracefulness that clears every obstacle, of sure-footed swiftness. And that is how men who live near God, and have His strength in them because they do, will go along their life-path. What a contrast to the way in which most of us get through our day’s work!
We plod along, heavy-footed and spiritless, like a ploughman in clayey furrows, with a pound of soil clogging each boot. The monotony of our constantly-recurring small duties, the ups and downs in our spirits, the stiff bits of road that we have all to pass some time, and, as days go on, the stiffer muscles which make us like to walk rather more slowly than we once did-all these make our feet very unlike hinds’ feet (Ps. xviii. 33).-DR. MACLAren.
The point
The Psalmist's image of feet like hinds' feet represents the lightness, grace and swiftness that God gives to those who live near Him, contrasting with the heavy plodding of those without His strength.