Eider Down

“Oh, I love this nice quilt,” said Lily, as she snuggled down in bed with a little sigh of content. “It is so light and warm and cozy.”
Lily’s quilt was an eiderdown, and the very name suggests something friendly and cozy and nice. The story of the eiderduck is a lesson for boys and girls.
When the mother eiderduck is sitting on her eggs, she strips the down from her own breast, and carefully nestles it around the eggs to keep them warm. Sometimes you can see an eiderduck with her breast plucked completely clean of down, and she looks so cold, but her little eggs are cozy and warm. It is this live and fluffy eiderdown that is so prized for quilts.
But we read in Romans 5 of a story of love that is far greater than all others. -
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” When we were as helpless to save ourselves as the baby birds, the Lord Jesus shed His precious blood to save us. Are you sheltered by His blood? He would love to put His loving arms about you right now, and become your own Saviour.
“A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” Isaiah 32:22And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isaiah 32:2).
Messages of God’s Love 6/26/1955