One Lone Bird

The Lone Bird

Its been some time since I last blogged. I am under the assumption that is due to the lack of inspiration. Curious isn't it? I began this blog to inspire myself...to find serenity in the smallest of things each day, yet I haven't felt inspired enough to even find the smallest things each day inspirational? Ah...I sense a presence of something more here...a common enemy the "joy zapper".. as I fondly name him. 


I was actually out again today running the roads, and I noticed a lone bird flying high in the sky. The skies had been threatening rain all day, but it still had not, at this point. You may wonder why one bird would even begin to get my attention, but it was not what it was doing, but what it was NOT doing.
Just behind this lone bird...not far behind was more birds...I would say 5 more. Then there was at least 10 more birds flying and encircling a bluff area that bottoms into a beautiful Lusk Creek tributary. I was trying to figure out why this bird was alone when so many of the other birds were together. I definitely noted that he was not a leader, but more just "out there" by himself. Yes there were 5 behind him a ways trying to just "be" with him...fly with him, yet he pursued the opposite direction away from them. Why? I watched this for some time, and finally lost sight of the lone bird. I watched the others pursuing after him and finally they also disappeared into the cloudy, crisp sky. All I wondered is...why? Why go it alone?

 Don't we often feel as if we have to "go it alone"? I have been feeling quite lonely in recent days. Maybe the common enemy we all face daily wants us to feel alone. God assures in His word that we are never alone, never forsaken, never abandoned. Right? Then why does some days...most days we feel alone? Because this common enemy wants us and desires us to separate ourselves making us  feel alone and that our situations will never change. We make the agreement with the accuser then we even place our personal wax seal on the outside of the envelope assuring ourselves, that yes we are alone. 

David, who later became king, was basically being hunted by King Saul...all because Saul was jealous that David had been anointed by God Himself, to be the next king. So David left everything and everybody he knew and fled for his life. That moment of fleeting led him straight to a cave..all by himself. Listen to this Psalms: 142:
1 With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. 3 When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me. 4 Look to the right and see:there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul. 5 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." 6 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me! 7Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

David, whom the Bible says was a man after Gods own heart, felt like that? Yep...he sure did...David was only human, as we all are. That bird I spoke about at the beginning of this blog wasn't all alone. There were other birds, but he chose to fly alone. They even sought after him, but again, he flew alone. Is our God seeking you today. God has placed specific friends in your life to seek after you, to help you, to pray for you, to love you. Will you allow them to do that? Will you allow them to love you or is pride getting in the way? 


I was thinking of someone that I had the chance to speak with this last week. She felt alone...very alone. She has lost a lot of weight from the trials and hardships she is enduring. The Lord just opened the door wide for me to ask her if she had a relationship with Jesus...did she know Him? I mean really...many people know about Jesus, but they don't really "know" Him. To know Him, accept His sacrifice on the cross and really hear Him and feel His presence in our lives...its amazing! It is a gift..nothing we can earn. I told her very pointedly that she needed Him...and if she had Him and her family, nothing mattered...everything else is only temporal. But she still told me that she felt alone...I think again of that lone bird.

The Old Oak Tree & Mighty Protector

As I ran back to the house tonight, I saw this amazing large oak tree by the lonely road in which I was running on (pic on right). I thought to myself how magnificent it was and its enormousness. It hovered over the road, like a protector stretching its limbs over me and the road in which I ran on. I couldn't help but to look up above me and smile for the thoughts of my mighty God stretching His hand over me and protecting me. It became so clear in my heart, so clearly through His nature giving me a peace that I can not even begin to describe, but its a deep inner strength, in which He gives to those who believe in not only what He is doing presently, but what He will do for us in the future. I am thanking Him for what He is going to do for me tomorrow. David later wrote this Psalms and I assure you he probably felt like his situation was never going to change in the previous Psalm 142:


Psalms:147 1-12


1 Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. 6 The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. 7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre! 8 He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. 9 He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry. 10 His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, 11 but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. 12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! 




Its is good to know that He has the stars numbered and He loves us more than that! If you haven't ever felt alone...you will, but may you always remember that you are not..His loving hand branches over you and protects you even when you don't feel Him above you. I am not alone.

God's branches above me today!