ONE DAY, when I was a young fellow, I was canoeing down the river. It was near the head of a rather high water fall, and the water was already beginning to flow rapidly at this point. I noticed a small young bird clinging to a branch of a tree which was floating down the river near the shore.
The young bird's mother was fluttering around trying to get the young one to fly ashore, but it would not move from the branch which was now rapidly nearing the waterfall. After trying in vain for some time, the mother suddenly pushed the young one off the branch and it was forced to fly ashore to avoid falling into the water.
The mother bird's act may have seemed harsh, but it saved her little one from going over the falls.
How often the Lord works this way too! Perhaps He has allowed some sorrow to come into your life, and you are wondering why. The mother bird's act seemed unkind, but it was really for the good of that little bird. So if trial and sorrow lead you to flee, on the wings of faith, to the Lord, to find salvation in Him, it can only be for your good too. How much better to experience a loss here, than to lose your soul forever.
God has proven His love to us in that He gave His only begotten Son to die for our sins on Calvary. There the Lord Jesus finished that blessed work of redemption, rose from the dead, and went back to heaven. Now He waits to save all who will come to Him just as they are.
Messages of the Love of God 3/16/1975