Mourning Dove

"We often think of great faith as something that happens spontaneously so that we can be used for a miracle or healing. However, the greatest faith of all, and the most effective, is to live day by day trusting Him. It is trusting Him so much that we look at every problem as an opportunity to see His work in our life. It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have."

Rick Joyner

For the past few days I have found a great deal of pleasure watching two nesting birds in my backyard. Pinched between two security lights in a secluded spot is a Robin’s nest, with three newly hatched chicks; who each stretch their necks with mouths distended wide as they await their parents return to feed them.
Just a few yards away in a window flowerbox on my storage shed there is a Mourning Dove’s nest with two eggs in it. Much to the delight of my grandchildren, and my own as well the Dove’s nest is only a few feet off the ground. The Dove sitting on her eggs is has a strong maternal instinct, so we are able to walk slowly up to the nest and she steadfastly stays to protect her unborn chicks.
The time will soon come when the chicks of both nests will mature and the mothers will be stirring their nests so their chicks to take flight from the perceived safety of their nests.

“…like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young,

that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.
The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the heights of the land

and fed him with the fruit of the fields.

He nourished him with honey from the rock,

and with oil from the flinty crag,”
Deuteronomy 32: 11-13 NIV

There are times when we go through seasons of difficulty and change when we find it difficult to understand why God would allow such distress in our lives. Often those closest to us fail to understand what we are feeling and it is easy to develop a sense that we have been abandoned, by God, family and friends.
Suffering is part of the grown process of the normal Christian life, and God will at times allow it so that we will be stirred from the comfort of our own spiritual nest into a season on a higher plane or a fresh move of His Spirit. To be certain God will allow this, and it is for our benefit even when we don’t see it. Just as certain as the changes God will allow is the fact that He will be there to catch us, support us, make us ready, and embrace us in a life of reckless abandon to His will for our lives.
God is calling all His children out of the safe warm snuggly nest. We may look over the edge of the nest any wonder, “If I jump where will I land?”

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen.
For by it the men of old gained approval.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared
by the word of God, so that what is seen
was not made out of things which are visible”
Hebrews 11:1-3 NASB

If God is urging us to jump He will be there with open arms to catch us, should we fall. If He is asking us to jump out of the nest, it is more likely that He knows that we are ready to fly!

"The steps of the righteous man/ woman are ordered by the Lord."
Psalm 37:23 .

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