Since this is God’s method, it is possible that He may break up our nest. Sometimes He not only breaks up our nest, but He pushes us off the cliff. Now I don't  know about you, but I do not like being pushed off a cliff. 

However, God does this to His own. And generally He pushes them into a heap  of trouble, problems, and difficulties.

Remember that the Lord Jesus sent His disciples across the Sea of Galilee one evening definitely, directly, and deliberately into a storm. He did it purposely.

Some folk do not like to hear this.

But God knew that the storm was coming.

And He sent them right into it.

Dear reader, God sent His own disciples, deliberately, into a dark storm. 

God leads some of His own through the fire, and some through the flood - that is the way God leads His dear children along. That is His method. 

But always remember that He will not let us fall.

There have been many times in my life when I have been pushed to the edge of the cliff and I was sure I would fall but I have not fallen and I do so Praise God for His absolute sheer Goodness to me.

We can be Confident!

"Being confident of this very thing, that He who hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6). 

You may think you are falling, dear reader, but

His wings will be there at the right moment. 

"Underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deuteronomy 33:27).

I know that fact by experience O how I know it.

JESUS NEVER FAILS.

Earthly friends may prove untrue,

Doubts and fears assail;

One still loves and cares for you,

One who will not fail.

Jesus never fails,  Jesus never fails,

Heaven and earth may pass away,

BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS.

Tho  the sky be dark and drear,

Fierce and strong the gale,

Just remember  He is near,

And He will not fail.

Jesus never fails,  Jesus never fails,

Heaven and earth may pass away,

BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS.

In life's dark and bitter hour

Love will still prevail;

Trust His everlasting power -  

JESUS WILL NOT FAIL.

JESUS NEVER FAILS,  JESUS NEVER FAILS,

HEAVEN AND EARTH MAY PASS AWAY,

BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS.

Written by: Beloved of our Lord Jesus Arthur  A.  Luther,  1891 - 1960.

Played by: Beloved of our Lord Jesus  Losinda.

Amen!

God in His Great ever present mercy will hold you dear reader and He will hold me on His wings, He will not let us fall. If, when you are reading this page, and you are at your wit’s end and do not know where to turn or what to do, let me give you this verse:

"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint" (Isaiah 40:31).

There are three degrees of power here, and several expositors have likened them to the three stages of Christian growth that we have in 

1 John 2:12–14   "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known Him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known Him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the Word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one."  

These three stages of growth are:

(1) the young Christian shall mount up as an eagle; 

(2) the adult Christian shall run; and 

(3) the mature Christian shall walk.

This reminds me of the story I once heard of a pastor who preached a very wonderful sermon, in which he said, 

"Brethren, this church, it needs to walk." 

And one of the deacons said, "Amen." 

He continued, "Brethren, this church needs to run." And the deacon said, "Hallelujah."

Then he said, "Brethren, this church needs to fly." And this deacon said, "Amen and Hallelujah." 

Then the minister said,

"Well, it’s going to cost money to make this church fly." 

To this the deacon replied, 

"Let her walk, brother, let her walk."

Dear reader, regardless of who we are, if we are going to move with God through this earth, it will cost us something. 

But God will furnish us with His  strength whatever our condition. 

If we need strength to walk, He will give it to us. 

If we need strength to fly, He has that for us also. 

This is such a wonderful comfort is it not. Our Creator, who is our our Savior, is our Sustainer.

In the eighteenth century Kathleen Shea Vick wrote this marvelous hymn.

Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, thy better portion trace;
Rise from transitory things, towards heaven, thy destined place:
Sun and moon and stars decay, time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away to seats prepared above.

Rivers to the ocean run, nor stay in all their course;
Fire ascending seeks the sun; both speed them to their source:
So my soul, derived from God, longs to view His glorious face,
Forward tends to His abode, to rest in His embrace.

Fly me riches, fly me cares, whilst I that coast explore;
Flattering world, with all thy snares, solicit me no more.
Pilgrims fix not here their home; strangers tarry but a night;
When the last dear morn is come, they’ll rise to joyful light.

Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn, press onward to the prize;
Soon thy Savior will return, to take thee to the skies:
There is everlasting peace, rest, enduring rest, in heaven;
There will sorrow ever cease, and crowns of joy be given.

Thanks: Cyberhymnal.org

Amen!

"Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you unto Myself."

Adam and Eve were put into the Garden of Eden - what a nest that was! 

Then they sinned, and God broke up their nest - but it was for their own good - and God drove them out of the Garden.

If we follow the record of how God dealt with His own in the Bible we soon find that this has been His method. Abraham was living in Ur of the Chaldees, which boasted a great civilization in his day. 

They had all sorts of comforts, and Abraham was a prosperous businessman. He was doing well, but one day God called him, broke up his nest, and moved him out. 

It was hard going from then on, but I can assure you that Abraham would never have exchanged that experience for a life of comfort in Ur of the Chaldees.

Moses, by what the world would call a trick of fate, got into the palace of Pharaoh and would have been the next Pharaoh on the throne. I have a notion that he could have given a very convincing argument for staying in that advantageous position. 

Certainly he could have said, 

"I can be of more help to my people here than if I attempted to step out." 

But Moses did not argue that way. 

He wanted to deliver his people.  

One day God broke up his nest and drove him out of that palace to the back side of the desert at Midian. 

That was God’s method.

Then there was David, beloved David, O how I love him and Praise God for him, he was just a shepherd boy out in the meadows with his sheep. He described how peaceful it was by the cool, limpid water and the green pastures.  

It was so comfortable there. 

One day God broke up his nest, the anointing oil was poured upon him, and he became Israel’s king, the like of which was never seen from that day on but David had to spend much, fearing for his life and hiding in the caves of the earth. 

David had to go underground for many years. 

David was schooled by God.

God put sandpaper on him.

God disciplined him. 

Because he was God’s man his nest had to be broken up.

James and John were prosperous fishermen living in Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. 

They were doing well until one fine day there came by a Man who called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed Him. 

Their nest was broken up. 

They left their fishing business to become two of the twelve disciples of our Precious Saviour Lord Jesus Christ. 

One of them died a martyr’s death,

and the other spent time on an island Patmos, in lonely exile. 

Way back there at Capernaum God had broken up their nest.

Dear reader, if we have been saved by grace, we have been called to a much higher plane of living than the Law ever called any man to experience. We are called to live above the valleys of this world, in fact, above the mountain peaks of the world. You see, the Law never raised man very high.

Remember that when planes first started flying in a commercial way, they never flew above six thousand feet in the air. Now and then they would bump into a mountain. But now with pressurized cabins, they are no longer limited to six thousand feet - they now go up to forty thousand feet. And when we say that a plane does not fly at six thousand feet, we do not mean that it is on the ground, we mean it is higher.

When we say that a born-again believer in Christ Jesus is not to be under Law, what we mean is that they are on a much higher plane. 

They are to leave the six thousand foot level and go up to where it is forty thousand feet because they are being borne on eagles’ wings.

God has His own way of training those whom He has saved by grace. 

He wants to teach us to use our wings. 

God does not want us to live on the low plane.

God wants us above the mountain peaks of this world of human effort. 

He does not want us caged down here by some religious zoo of this world to be on display for spectators.

Those whom our Lord calls are not born-again by the way we live our lives. They are saved by faith and that faith comes to us by our hearing of the Word of God and receiving it, believing what it says that Christ died for our sins and that He rose for our justification. 

We are to live for Him on a high plane.

That is the very thing apostle Paul said to Titus. 

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men" (Titus 2:11).

The eagle wings of God’s grace have taken those who have trusted Christ and lifted them out of sin. But that does not end it. The very same grace of God is 

"Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present age" (Titus 2:12). 

And Paul also wrote this, not in the language of Sinai, but in the language of love, the language of the mother eagle urging her young to come up higher: 

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12:1).

And again apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, 

"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love" (Ephesians 4:1-2). 

Dear reader if you have been called by God it is a very high calling. 

It demands walking in lowliness and meekness.