Stir up my nest

     Deut 32:11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

     When the eagle builds its nest, it builds it as high up as possible. The nest is built with sharp and sticky branches that are covered with soft moss from the ground and its own feathers. When its eaglets is getting close to the time they should learn how to fly, the eagle mother start to stir up the nest, throwing out all the comfortable moss and feathers, exposing the sharp and uncomfortable sticky branches. At the same time, the eagle father is hovering over the nest, watching it all. As the nest is getting more and more uncomfortable, the eaglets are being forced to leave the nest, and while they fall down, trying to fly, the eagle father are making sure they will not hurt themselves, if they fail the attempt to fly. 

     God is using this example to tell Israel how he led them from Egypt and to the Promised Land. He was saying that all the trials in Egypt was him stirring up the nest, forcing them to leave the comfort of Egypt, and to spread their wings. While he was watching over them all the time, and helping when their faith failed them.

     Sometime we go through trials we don’t understand. Maybe its God stiring up our nest? Hoping we will take the jump to spread our wings? We are the church of the living God. We are meant to fly. Not to find ourselves in a comfortable nest somewhere. Are you flying? If not, maybe you are reaching the time when God will stir up your nest? Don’t be afraid. Your Father is hovering over your nest, to pick you up if you fail.