06/29/2021
Wisdom from the farm:
Birds
What kind of birds build nests in the rocks? Apparently lots do, but this Killdeer bird happened to choose our driveway for a perfect placement for her eggs.
This bird has weathered driving rain, winds, cars passing close, people, and dogs to sit on her Little Rock nest harboring 4 cute speckled eggs. She’s stuck right there in the driveway through it all. Or is she? Maybe she’s just stationed right where she’s supposed to be; perfectly equipped for her job by the One that created her.
She’s a tough bird. Her food is right there on the ground where she is and she will guard that nest at whatever cost. She is equipped with the instinct to deflect the attention from her nest onto herself to keep it safe. The work isn’t much up front, but maintaining is demanding with all the predators she can openly see and must face that are trying to steal what she worked so hard for. Yet she does it fully.
But then there are the birds in the trees. They work so hard to weave a safe place for their babies. Their creator equipped them for their job too. They aren’t free from predators in the trees, but theirs sneak in like snakes to steal what they worked so hard for. Yet they keep going.
And the babies they are hoping to hatch out are equipped by their creator for where they are as well.
The babies in the rocks pop out so cute and ready to roll. The momma doesn’t feed them. They are fully ready to run and find their own food.
The babies in the nest are not developed fully. They require food from momma constantly and more continuous care until they are ready to fly.
But these mommas aren’t crying about being stuck in a tree or the rocks. They are doing what God created them to do. What God equipped them to do. They are stationed where he meant for them to be to no surprise of the Creator. And their babes aren’t stuck they are also stationed right where God knew they would be whether in the wide open or tucked discreetly away. He knew where he would station them.
So I don’t know where you are in this life. Stationed in the rocks deflecting seen predators from your family left and right or hidden away in a nest trying to protect your family from unseen predators that sneak in to steal, kill and destroy but you are not stuck. Your creator saw this before you ever got there. He went before you and equipped you and/or your kiddos for this exact station.
He provides for the birds and he will provide for you just keep looking to Him. There’s so much work to guard your nest and your eggs and seeking Him sometimes depending on the season, but you are fully prepared in Him to do this.
Ephesians 2:10
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
1 Corinthians 12:4-7
“and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.”
Hebrews 13:20-21
“Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”