Aloft

Deuteronomy 32:10-14 – 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. The Lord alone led him; no foreign god was with him. He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag, with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

Psalm 17:8-9 – Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings from the wicked who are out to destroy me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

Deuteronomy 4:35 – You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

Habakkuk 3:19 – The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

Application:

• ·         Wings were a metaphor for the protective outreach of God’s power.
• ·         Moses insists that there is only one God.
• ·         “Makes my feet like the feet of a deer” means gives me sure-footed confidence.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV