And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him." vv.10-12
Read chapter 32
This chapter is a song. A song that would help Israel remember their past of what they learned in the forty years wandering in the wilderness and the characteristics of God. This was not to forget His goodness and also His justices. God here is compared to an eagle. He's compared to an eagle not in the way of laying eggs, nesting on them to keep them warm but about how it destroys its nest so that her young can learn to fly; removing the comfort zone so that they can develop in to what they were created to do- fly. The mother eagle doesn't just abandon them but stays near and often carries their young in their claws till they get it. So God was with the Israelites and is with us today. He doesn't leave us but He allows things to happen in our lives to push us out of our comfort zone to become the person He created us to be and go.
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