His Wonderful Watchcare

When God stirs our nest, He remains beneath us to give us strength and support. Moses put it another way in the next chapter of Deuteronomy (33), “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” If God stirs up your nest, He remains with you tu support you when your faith grows weary. He is there to be your courage when all hope is gone. He is there to be your example of how to “fly.”

Isaiah 41:10 reads, “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” And in your darkest night, when you have no other place to turn, God is there like a mother eagle who cares for her young. When your hope is gone, you can rest in God, just as the eaglets rest on their mother’s wings.

4. A fourth time we can know the goodness of God through His watchcare is when He leads us.

In v. 12, Moses states that just as a mother eagle is the only support, the only guide for her young eaglets, in the same way, God alone guided Israel through their wilderness travels.

As a mother eagle guides her children constantly in order to teach them to fly, God guides us constantly, never taking His eye from us.

As a mother eagle guides her children lovingly, because she is their mother, God guides us with so much more love, because He is our Creator, and our Heavenly Father. He knows the way!

As a mother eagle guides her children wisely, knowing each step of the way, knowing exactly what to do in order to get her children to fly, God guides us wisely. He knows the way, and He doesn’t make mistakes.

God is the only one who can guide us in our wanderings and searchings, in our doubts and fears. He is the only one who can guide us constantly. He is the only one who loves us so much that He would send His son to die for us. He is the only one who can guide us wisely for all of eternity, beginning here and now.

Psalm 23:2, “He makes me lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside quiet waters.”

Isaiah 42:16, “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.”

When God leads us, and He seeks to do that always, you and I can know just how good God really is.

Are you plagued with troubles for which there seem to be no answer? Has there been a recent upheaval in your life, and you feel as though you are falling? Remember the eagle, who stirs up the nest so the little ones may learn how to fly. Think then of God, who often must do the same thing to us. Respond to His leadership in faith, and trust Him. It can make all the difference in the world.

Isaiah 40:31, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.”

John Piper has written, “God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn’t do good to his children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and he never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going "bad" that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means he is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving him.”

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