Carried Away

“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”  Exodus 19:4

Sometimes God simply carries us.

If you’ve ever known you couldn’t go on, yet, somehow, at the end of the day you had made it through, you know what I mean.  If you’ve ever been in a situation you couldn’t solve, and, yet, as circumstances unfolded and decisions followed, you saw the answer in action, you know what I mean.  If you don’t, you will, so just file this for the future, for all of God’s children whether facing difficulty in life or the finality of death will eventually (and some of us often) reach the place where we are out of strength, out of skill, and out of steps.

It is in those times that we are carried. “In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste.  He shielded 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 aloft”(Deut 32:10-11).

These words poetically describe God’s dealings with the Israelites during their deliverance from Egypt.  Since His people were helpless against the hardship and hatred of slavery, He overpowered the enemy, picked up His own, and carried them away to salvation and safety. “You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself”(Ex 19:4).

The strong, broad wings of an eagle beautifully depict God’s wonderful, wide grace in which we are securely carried through our struggles and onto which we fall when we fail. As hope in God renews our strength, we can walk, run, and often even soar(Isaiah 40:31), but sometimes, in the worst of times, we are simply graciously and ever so gently carried.

When you can’t go on, God carries.  When you fall, God catches.  Why?  To bring you to Him.  To bring you back to Him.  Because He wants to. Because He wills to.  Because He loves you.  

And that should be way more than enough to get us all carried away!