What are some of the causes of being
mentally out of sync? A story is told of
a family of swallows whose nest was right above a big river. The mom and dad swallow
had four chicks which were now off-age and ready to leave the nest. So as
nature calls, the mother swallow takes the first little bird and throws it over
the edge of the nest...each time going down to swoop below the chick and
transporting it safely back into the nest. This training was done until such a
time as they were ready to go off and fend for themselves.
As has been before, the mommy
swallow threw out the first little one from her nest and watched…with its tiny
wings it flapped & flew and so did the rest of them, except for one fellow,
who thought that he would stay in the nest forever. The mother swallow tried to
throw him out, however; he held to the branch with his beak, so mom started to
peck at his beak till it was more painful for him to hold on than to let go. Eventually
he let go and as he was frantically flapping his tiny wings, somewhere in
mid-air he realised that his wings were actually designed for flight and so he flew
off like the rest of the birds.
Take a moment to reflect…did the mother bird
seek the best for the little swallows? Did she always make sure that they got a
squirmy worm each day? Why could this little bird not trust the mother’s care? Why
do we distrust our Heavenly Father’s care? Why do we doubt His goodness? Does
He not seek our good? Does He not provide for all our needs each day? Doubt not
only robs us of the happiness which the Lord wants us to have, but it also spreads
shadows of darkness in our minds and to others, thus covering the Sun of Righteousness,
[our only hope] from our view. The effects of doubt on the brain are
immeasurable, for what we say with our mouths tends to be what our mind
believes as reality. The words of doubt we utter today may just be the very
thing keeping us from grasping tightly to the hand of faith, it is a hindrance from
seeing the reality of exercising our faith…“so then, faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
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