Ryan Daffron

“I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.” — Exodus 19:4

SOUNDING
After the Red Sea, the wilderness, the manna, and the early formation of Israel as a people, they arrive at Mount Sinai. Before giving them commandments or expectations, God begins by reminding them of what has already happened. He points them back to Egypt and says, in essence, Remember how you got here. You did not free yourselves. You did not outmaneuver Pharaoh. You did not carve your own path through the sea. I carried you.

The image God chooses is striking. An eagle does not drag its young or force them forward. It carries them on its wings, lifting them above danger and using currents the young birds cannot yet navigate. That is how God describes the Exodus. Israel may remember the fear, the confusion, and the uncertainty of those days, but God remembers the larger reality. Underneath every step of their escape was His strength carrying them forward.

Perspective changes when you look backward with honesty. What once felt like survival often reveals itself as rescue. Moments you thought depended on your endurance were actually sustained by God’s quiet strength beneath you. Israel stands at Sinai because God carried them there. And the same truth often emerges in our own stories when we pause long enough to see it.

BEARING
Looking back often reveals that God carried you farther than you realized.

PRAYER
LORD, open my eyes to the ways You have carried me when I thought I was walking alone.

DROP IN
Look back over a difficult season of your life. Where might God have been carrying you even when you did not see it at the time?