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He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. (Psalm 18:33)

The bighorn sheep in...Rocky Mountain National Park will often allow visitors to approach them from below and take...photos. But don't try to et above them or the entire herd will run away. [Their] escape route from predators is always upward. On level ground a bobcat or cougar can easily overtake the wild sheep, but scrambling up a boulder-strewn slope, the bighorns will get away every time.

Years ago I heard a speaker say, "No matter what danger you face from trouble or temptation, don't let it get between you and God." As Christians, our escape route is always upward toward the Lord, never downward into sin or self-pity.