Children's Bible Ministry of Connecticut, USA
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Mountain Jumpers
The animals of the mountains are jumpers in every sense of the word. They skip too, and not only
along a mountain path, but skip meals as well. It is amazing that they can survive on so little food.
The Himalayan wild ox, called a yak, for example, can live on land that has very little grass. Farm
cattle would die if they 
had to live on it. Bad weather often forces many mountain animals to
move to valleys for a while. The ibex, which lives in the high peaks of the Gran Paradiso in Italy,
must go down below the tree line in the winter to find its food.
The ibex, or wild mountain goat is master of the rocks and ravines. It can jump across a distance
of 24 to 30 feet with the greatest of ease, and over a void or empty space with nothing below. The
male can do it weighing around 220 pounds.
Sometimes our lives can seem like mountains and valleys. There are happy things that make us
very glad. There are very sad things that make us feel very low. There are mountains of
difficulties. There are big troubles and disappointments. Sometimes we can laugh; other times we
cry. Sometimes we have much; sometimes we have little. Sometimes there is sickness; sometimes
there is health. Life and death, marriage and divorce and separation and all kinds of things happen
to us.
God wants us to be like the animals of the mountains that can get along with much or little, that
can jump over problems and difficulties. There were difficult times in the days of Habakkuk the
prophet. Things were not all right. Habakkuk learned to be strong in the Lord. In Habakkuk 3:18
we read ". . . I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is
my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet [like the feet of the wild young deer], and he
will make me to walk upon mine high places."
Knowing the Lord Jesus Christ is the way to walk and run and skip and jump and soar through life
successfully.
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