★ The Eagle!

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. Deuteronomy 32: 11-12

Trial's teach us faith. Trial is the fruitful soil of trust. Difficulties are the divine incentives which demand and develop our confidence in YAHWEH's faithfulness and trust.

The eagle can only teach her young to fly by tearing up her nest and hurling them out in mid-air, where,  thrown upon their own resources, they must either fly or fall. Then it is in that situation that they must learn the undeveloped power in their little pinions, and as they strike out upon the air in desperate struggles, they find the secret of a new life and gradually learn to beat their way through the pathless firmament and upon the wings of the wind and in the face of the sun.

So in the same way, GOD teaches HIS children to use their wings of faith by stirring up their nests, taking away their props and often flinging them out into an abyss of helplessness, where they must either sink or learn to trust and throw themselves upon the seeming void, to find that GOD's  arms  are  there beneath them like the supporting wings  of the eagle,  which she stretches forth beneath her faint and struggling brood.

It is so easy for us to lean upon things we can see and feel that it is an entirely new experience for us to stand alone and walk with an unseen GOD as Peter walked upon the sea. But it is the lesson we must learn,  if our souls are ever to dwell in YAHWEH's eternal calm where faith must be our only sense,  and GOD our all in all. Often therefore,  the crowning lesson of the spiritual life  is learned in the school of suffering...

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Can we ever see the air we breathe.  No... But we know its there. We know it for a fact. Even if someone tells us otherwise,  we would stand strong in our belief that this invisible air is all around us and if it were not there, we would indeed die.

Similarly our JESUS though invisible, is as real, or permit me to say with a very strong conviction,  is even more real than the air we breathe.  Infact HE is ever-present and always with us. Though we cannot see JESUS, HE walks beside HIS precious children, holding our hands when we are happy and carrying us in HIS arms when we are in pain...JUST BASK IN HIS LOVE.....