******* PRAISE THE LORD *******
" The eternal God in thy refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee: and shall
say, Destroy them." - Deuteronomy 33:27.
Frances Hamerstrom spent her life studying wildlife.
In her
book “An eagle to the sky” {1970} she describes the flight of an eaglet. When
the male chick was big enough, the parents would fly past it with empty feet. The
baby would scream for food, standing on the very edge of the nest. Sometimes the
parents fed him, but more often he was left to find his own food. He would pick
at the remains of earlier meals. And grew thinner and quicker. Then one day, a
parent flew past the chick, carrying a young marmot. The eaglet lunged for the
food and in so doing, fell from the nest into the emptiness below.
He flapped his wings and managed to glide across the valley
to land on a bare knoll. As it turned to get its bearings, the parent drooped
the marmot nearby. The eaglet pounced on the prey and ate his fill. The parents had flown right alongside the
eaglet as he made his first flight. Biologists tell us that when eaglet is
forced out of the nest, the parents fly right next to it, or usually under it.
If the baby falters, the parent flies right under and ‘pick’ up the baby on its
giant wings.
I like that. I like
to think that the everlasting arms of my heavenly Father are beneath me, ever
ready to scoop me up and set me down on firm ground. How many times we follow
the wrong road, take the wrong turn, or listen to the wrong voice. And all the
while the Father waits patiently, working alongside to bring us home. The
wonderful father in LUKE 15 sat at the
gate every day, scanning the path for any sign of his boy, ready to run and gather
the young man in his arms. And gather he did as his son buried his face in the
father’s bosom and mumbled an apology.
As we move through
this life journey, we can be conscious of those mighty and everlasting arms
spread beneath us. Matthew Henry points out that “those who make God their
habitation, shall have all the comforts and benefits of a habitation in him
{Psalm 91:1}. Never were people so well supported and borne up. Howsoever low
the people of God are brought at any time, everlasting arms are underneath
them, to keep the spirit from sinking, from fainting, and their faith from
failing.”
What a mighty God
we serve! May this eternal God be our God as we prepare to fly throughout our life.
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