Apple Of His Eye

Deuteronomy 32:9-11 – For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. 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.

Psalm 16:5 – Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.

Psalm 73:26 – My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 107:39-40 – Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow; he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

Jeremiah 31:22 – How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth—the woman will return to the man.”

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.

Application:

• ·         To the godly the Lord offers a cup of blessing or salvation; He makes the wicked drink from a cup of wrath.
• ·         Since the psalmist (Asaph) was a Levite, the Lord was his portion in the promised land in that he lived by the people’s tithes dedicated to the Lord.
• ·         In their prosperity the people, led by their nobles, grew proud and turned their backs on the God who had blessed them, so he returned them to the desert.
• ·         Judah would someday return to the Lord and love Him as her husband without reservation. The meaning may be that, instead of God protecting Israel, Israel will at last protect God’s interests.
• ·         “Apple of his eye” was referring to the pupil, a delicate part of the eye that is essential for vision and that therefore must be protected at all costs.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV