Whispers Amidst the Shadows

Solomon 2 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Matthew 6:26

Matt. 6:26 as Jesus sat on the hillside teaching He pointed to the birds overhead and said, "Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Jesus points our eyes to the birds as illustrations of God's care. He also said not a sparrow falls without God's knowledge. When he sought for an illustration of what he wanted His disciples to be, He urged them to be wise as serpents but harmless as doves. He used birds in His parables of the sower and the mustard seed, and on other occasions. The very first image we have of God in the Bible is in Gen. 1:2 where we see the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters. The image is of a bird without spread wings fluttering over its nest protectively. Genesis 2 19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof.

I cannot even imagine sitting down and getting to name all the animals that exist here on earth, how privileged Adam was. The next time you look at something, remember where it got its name. I do not know about you but it makes me wonder how and where Adam got the names. God had already filled him with knowledge. I find, as I get older I notice things more. Just as I did the two birds in the picture, I saw the beautiful mixture of color, the orange, grey, browns, blacks and those little orange webfeet, to the beauty of the aquamarine and brown in the other little bird. God put all these colors together so that we could have beauty surrounding us. I want you to take a walk around your yard and just admire the sounds, listen as the birds chirp or the squirrels climb the trees, even the dogs barking in the distance, check out the colors in the butterfly and remember God set them all here for us. Take off your colored glasses and see the real beauty.

Psalm8:3-9 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 what is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Picture taken at Creation Gardens by Brenda Redmond

Thank you Precious Father for your surrounding beauty, thank you for all my friends and family, I ask your blessings on their life. Amen!