Reflection: Longing to Gather You

After God had brought the Israelites out of Egypt, he told Moses to tell the people, “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel” (Ex. 19:4-6). Think of that! They were brought to God on eagle’s wings to be his treasured possession . . . 

Jesus told us, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” What more do we want before we will love and trust him to lead us in the right direction even when the way is through the rapids? Even if it looks like we’ll never see calm water again?