The LORD Alone Guided Him

Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High appointed the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods; the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young; as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions, the LORD alone guided him; no foreign god was with him. He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock; curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat – you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.

Deuteronomy 32:7-12

Do you think of times when you have feared that God abandoned you? The view we have is our own, and we do not always see what He has planned for us. Our vision is limited. We see only a small part of the entire scene.

Moses used eagle imagery to describe God. As eagles carry their young, God carries His people. Despite how it may seem, God is never far from us. This is true when we feel abandoned.

Because the Lord is watching over us,

we do not have to fear the dangers around us.

Our Daily Bread – May 13, 2008