Have you ever watched a bird sleeping on its perch and never falling off? How does it manage to do this?
The secret is the tendons of the bird’s legs. They are so constructed that when the legs are bent at the knees, the claws contract and grip like a steel trap.
The claws refuse to let go until the knees are unbent again. The bended knees give the bird the ability to hold on to his perch so tightly.
This experience can be the secret of the holding power of the Christian. Daniel found this to be true. Surrounded by pagan environment and tempted to compromise with evil when urged to weaken his grip on God, he refused to let go.
Daniel held firm when others faltered because he was a man of prayer. He knew the power of the bended knees.
Furthermore, from sleeping birds we can learn the secret of holding things that are most precious to us.
That secret is the knees bent in prayer, seeking to get a firmer grip on those values that make life worth living.
When we hold firmly to God in prayer, we can be assured He will hold tightly to us.
When You Want To Ask God Why? God said that because you have longed to save My World, I have let you have the training that prepares you to save.
Take your pains and sufferings, your difficulties and hardships each day and offer them up for one troubled soul or for some prayer especially needed to be answered.
And, the beauty of each day will live on after the trouble and distress; the difficulty and pain of the day have passed.
Learn from Me of the suffering that saves others. So that you will sing in your pain; across the grayest days are the gleams of sunlight.
See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the one purpose and plan to which all are leading.
If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place, as you ascend, seeing only that, how weary and profitless your climb.
But, if you think of each step as leading to the summit of achievement, from which glories and beauties will open out before, then your climb will be so different. If in doubt, ask those that won the Gold, Silver and Bronze in any Olympic.
Obedience With a Cost. “Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble upon this people and You have not rescued Your people at all.” Exodus 5:23
Have you ever felt like you have been obedient to the Lord for something He called you to do and all you get are more roadblocks?
This is the way Moses must have felt when he went to tell Pharaoh to release the people because God said so, Pharaoh simply got angry and made the people make bricks without straw.
Moses caught the blame for this from the people. Moses was just learning what obedience really means in God’s Kingdom.
You see, Moses had not even begun to release plagues upon Egypt. He hadn’t even gotten started yet in his calling, and he was complaining about his circumstances.
There were many more encounters with Pharaoh to come and many more plagues with no deliverances in sight. Why would God tell Moses that He is going to deliver them and not do it?
It was all in timing. God never said when He was going to deliver. He just said He would. In the next chapter of the story, we find Moses arguing with God about not being capable of the job that God had called him to do.
But, Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?” Now, the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and He commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. Exodus 6:12-13.
