Andrew Murray

I was reading Andrew Murray's book on Waiting on God this week and I found this section meaningful.

You know how the eagles are taught the use of their wings. See yonder cliff rising a thousand feet out of the sea. See high up a ledge on the rock where there is an eagle's nest with its treasure of two young eaglets. See the mother bird come and stir up her nest, and with her beak push the timid birds over the precipice. See how they flutter and fall and sink toward the depth. See how she, flutterith over her young, spredth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth then on her wings, (Deut. 32:11) and so as they ride upon her wings, brings them to a place of safety. And so she does this once and again each time casting them out over the precipice and then again taking and carrying them. So the Lord alone did lead him. (Deut. 32:12) Yes, the instinct of that eagle mother was God's gift, a single ray of that love in which the Almighty trains His people to mount as on eagles' wings.

He stirs up your nest. He disappoints your hopes. He brings down your confidence. He makes you fear and tremble, as all you strength fails, and you feel utterly weary and helpless. And all the while He is spreading His strong wings for you to rest your weakness on and offering His everlasting Creator strength to work in you. And all He asks is that you sink down in your weariness and wait on Him. Allow Him in His Jehovah strength to carry you as you ride upon the wings of His omnipotence.

Dear child of God, I pray you, lift up your eyes, and behold your God! Listen to Him who says that He "fainteth not, neither is weary," (Isa. 40:28), who promises that you too will not faint or be weary, who asks nothing but this one thing, that you should wait on Him. And, let your answer be , With such a God, so mighty, so faithful, so tender, My soul , wait thou only upon GOD!