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Re: Bulletin Board [message #11306 is a reply to message #11305]

Tue, 22 July 2014 08:35

Gary
Messages: 1025
Registered: August 2008
Location: Indiana

Senior Member

Thanks Brother, I did not know what you meant at first I thought you was giving the weather down there. Rolling Eyes

I can understand a little better how life does not consist in the abundance of "things". All the toys in life seem important until you have to move them. We're planning on scaling way back and getting rid of all the clutter.

Ya'll understand what I mean. LOL

I'll have to shut down the computer soon, I hope I can remember where all those wires go to. I can get stuff on my phone but its a hassle to try and type on those things.

Not to change the subject, I thought of you recently watching those Eagles. We have several baby Robins hopping around in our fenced yard and we cannot let the cats out or they'll try to kill them. I did not realize how vulnerable birds are its surprising so many even survive considering all the predators out there.

Birds spend some time on the ground while trying to learn to fly. The parents are helpless in trying to protect them. This is a part of this world that I never paid attention to and that is, the animal kingdom suffering because of man's sin.

Its kind of sad to see anything die.

We've had to rush outside several times pulling our cats away from those little birds. Cats love killing stuff. This probably sounds crazy to someone who loves to hunt and kill animals, I'm talking about people out there in general who do hunt.

Anyway my wife said, we're like those little Robins, surrounded by predators (powers of darkness) that we're unaware of and the Lord is there constantly watching over us and protecting us.

I thought it was a good analogy.

Did you ever hear that story that Stan Hill shared in a sermon years ago? I think it went like this:

There was a massive forest fire that took place out west. It totally destroyed all the landscape and there was nothing left of this large forest but charred remains. After the fire finally went out there was a number of Rangers walking through the area and surveying the damage and documenting all the destruction that took place. While walking along one of the Rangers kicked a small black charred clump and out of it ran a bunch of baby chickens. They found; It was the mother hen, who put her wings over them and protected them from the fire.

Praise God were hiding under the shadow of His Wings and protected from this old world, with its black charred sin.

I never forgot that true story he had shared.

Anyway I thought of you watching the mighty Eagles and here in Indiana I'm watching two Robins. I sure hope they learn to fly soon. Cool

In Him,
Gary

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