Last night in prayer meeting, we were comparing the love of God for Israel, and the love of God for believers. In Deut.32:9-12 a song of Moses, is a beautiful picture of God;s love for "Jacob", His people Israel.

"For the LORD'S portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. In a desert land He found him, in a barren and howling waste. He sheilded him, and cared for him; He guarded him as the apple of His eye, LIKE AN EAGLE THAT STIRS UP ITS NEST AND HOVERS OVER ITS YOUNG, THAT SPREADS ITS WINGS TO CATCH THEM AND CARRIES THEM ON ITS PINIONS. The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him."

Although this is the LORD's loving care for Israel, I feel as though He loves me this way. I often wander in desert lands, and have known HIS sheilding, care, and guarding. I often try to fly, as He pushes me out of my comfort zone nest, and I so often am like Peter walking on water as I take my eyes of Jesus, sinking, falling and flailing. Just then, as that loving parent, the Lord zooms under me, and catches me, and I am dependent upon His strength and His power.

But it always begins with the push out of the nest...which is horrifying if I am not right with the Lord. One minute I am all content with my little corner, and the next the bottom falls out, and I am asked to call upon my faith. I  make plans and commitments and flap my wings wildly, trying to keep myself "up". Then, I get tired, or distracted, and I let up for a moment, only to find myself falling.

So...I pray...LORD, swoop under me, reach out and grab my hand, pull me up! I need You! "Lord save me!" How wonderful is His love to push me, to cause me to trust, to keep me broken and dependent, to then carry me on His wings. My Jesus hand reaches out as He says, " O ye of little faith, why did you doubt?"    A new song I am working on, says...

"I'm longing for You Jesus, Only You, I'm longing for You, Jesus, only You. I have tried to fill the emptiness but nothing else will do, I'm longing for You Jesus, only You..."