Blue Heron in Nest by Dee Kamp
Created
to Withstand the Storm
“They’re back!” I shouted with joy to husband as we
were driving by the thick grove of alders growing along the estuary near our
home. I stared in awe at the rookery of nests built last season by the
beautiful great blue herons.
“How on earth did they survive our record rainfalls
this winter and that huge gale force wind that took down so many other trees?”
I asked Bill.
He said with a smile, “Easy, it’s God who that
taught Noah exactly how to build a weather proof ark, and it’s God who taught
the heron how to build storm proof nests.“
“I shall
remember the deeds of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I
will meditate on all Your work and muse on Your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy;
What god is great like our God? You are the God who works wonders; You have
made known Your strength among the peoples.” Psalm 77:11-14 NISB
How often we look up to God in wonder at how He was
able to teach a bird to build a nest, or how He taught a man to build an ark,
but so often we look to Him as our last means for what we need to survive a
storm in our life.
Our strength comes from our faith in God alone. And
by each passage through them, our faith becomes stronger and stronger building
us up more and more. Just like those strong
sticks the heron adds to strengthen their nests after each storm our foundation
of faith in God is able to give us the strength we need too.
When we experience those unforeseen storms in life,
they may frightened us for a moment, but when we turn to God it’s then we
realize the storm isn’t able to make us fall apart. We are by faith able to
stand through it, just like the heron’s nest is created to withstand a
windstorm.
“How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest
resource. We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn
that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the
desired haven. “―George MacDonald
“Created to Withstand a Windstorm” by Dee Kamp,
Grace Every Morning Ministries© April 5, 2016
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