Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Jeffrey Osborne singing popular … On The Wings of Love … a love song poignantly singing of how two in love must fly high on the wings of their love … but it also is a double entendre of how we fly into eternity on the wings of God’s love.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Deuteronomy 32:10-11 [NLT] … 10 In the desert land He [God] found him (Israel), in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; … He guarded him and cared for him as the apple of His eye. 11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, … that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft. …
… Moses pictures our God as the Eagle who prepares its young to leave the nest and fly high in freedom.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Deuteronomy 32: 1-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Moses sing his song of God’s deliverance where He has carried them on His wings of love in the past and will carry them, even with their weaknesses into His land of promise.
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Reference Passage [NLT] : … Isaiah 40:30-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
... The Prophet likens true believers as those who soar on wings of God’s love like eagles.
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] … 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money (i.e., sin) and be content with what you have because God has said, … “NEVER will I leave you; NEVER will I forsake you.”
… The author of Hebrews, restating Moses’ word from God to His people in Deut. 31:6, 8 of how our God will never forsake His promises and power for His remnant of believers, i.e., His children.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Boucher Pye, uses a life example to teach on letting God into our lives when He needs us for His witness or work. The ODB author wrote: Betty’s daughter arrived home from an overseas trip, feeling unwell. When her pain became unbearable, Betty and her husband took her to the emergency room. The doctors and nurses set to work, and after a few hours one of the nurses said to the parents, “She’s going to be okay! We’re going to take good care of her and get her healed up.” In that moment, Betty and her husband felt peace and love flood over them. They realized that while they hovered over their daughter anxiously, the Lord is the perfect parent who nurtures His children, comforting us in difficult times.
I’ve always loved the word picture of our God raising and protecting His young (i.e., you & me) like bald eagles, providing for their eaglets and preparing them to leave the nest. And ultimately the parent eagle will take the soft covering from the nest, which is high in the mountains; and the mother eagle literally pushes her young eaglet from the nest; and it plummets toward the ground, unable to fly. But the mother eagle flies under the young bird and catches it, carrying it back to the safety of the nest (see photo). And the mother eagle will do this over and over, as long as necessary, until the young bird flies on its own, never to return to the nest.
And like the eagles, we parents do hover over your young, don’t we, as in the ODB story? But ultimately we prepare our young to fly free on their own. And we Christian parents do that, preparing our kids to believe the truths about God in God’s word (see Is. 40 and Heb. 13. And as Jeffrey Osborne sings in the linked song, we help them to see that they will fly free on the wings of God’s love into His enteral arms of love.
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Dear Lord, … I fly high on the wings of Your love. … Amen
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