True confession : sometimes I test God.
Like the other day, I needed some encouragement and I told God as much. Sitting at the breakfast table, I told God I was going to flip open my bible and would He please let it land somewhere that would give me a whisper of comfort.
It landed in Deuteronomy 32.
Really God? Deuteronomy?
That’s when God took out the 2x4 and smacked me across the head. Hard.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:11
When an eagle wants to teach it’s young to fly, it pushes them out of the nest. The eaglet learns what her wings are for. If the eaglet comes in danger of not spreading her wings soon enough, the parent eagle will swoop down and carry them in its pinions back to the nest.
Dare I admit the tears that welled up in my eyes friends?
But God, I’m comfortable in the nest.
Push.
But God, I’m warm in the nest.
Push.
But God, it’s safe here and I’m fed.
Push.
In our today, there is no mistake we have all been pushed out of the nest.
The gut-wrenching feeling of free falling is followed closely with confusion.
God, why?
His pinions grab and we are returned to the comfort of the nest.
Until the next push.
It is in the free fall Beloved that we learn the strength of our wings.
It is in God’s faithfulness in which we are taken back to the place of rest.
The eaglet would never know the power of flight, if it wasn’t for the push.
The eaglet would never know it was meant for great heights while in the comfort of the nest.
The eaglet would never know its magnificence in which it had been created.
Friends, maybe today you feel the free fall.
Maybe you long to feel the comfort of the nest.
Maybe you cry out for the safety of His pinons.
Stretch your wings.
Know we have been created for magnificence.
And His pinions are always near.
