Friday, April 21, 2017

Created to Withstand All Storms


 
Great Blue Heron photo by Dee Kamp
 

Created to Withstand All Storms

“They’re back!” I shouted with joy to my husband as we were driving by the thick grove of alders along an estuary nearby our home.
 I stared in awe at the large rookery of nests built high atop each tree by the great blue herons.  

“How on earth did the nests survive our record rainfalls this winter and that huge gale force wind that took down so many trees this April?” I asked Bill.

He said with a smile, “Easy, it’s God who taught Noah exactly how to build a weather proof ark, and it’s God who taught the heron how to build storm proof nest.“

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

By each Word of promise in the message God in our Bibles we can depend on Him  for strength, hope an faith which will grow stronger and stronger every day of our lives.
Board by board directed by God,  Noah nailed them together to build an ark which was able to survive the greatest storm in history. And stick by stick a heron build to build a nest in a tree created to withstand all storms too.

So let us be encouraged by God's examples in nature, of His great wisdom and power and love for us in all areas and seasons of our life. For its true, He knows our needs before they are spoken and He is faithful to stand beside us through every storm, to sustain and hold us tight to Him through them all.
“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 All Windstorm”  by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© April 21, 2017

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