The last lesson from the birds....

Here's one final thing I noticed about the birds...

Their Praise

They just sang no matter what! In spite of the fact that they didn't know the plan, they didn't have a way to provide for themselves, and they didn't have much control over the events effecting their lives, they SANG!!!

In Psalm 137, there is a sad account of a time in the lives of the Israelites. They had been taken captive in a foreign land and times were so hard that they hung their harps on a tree because they had no reason to sing.

But in the New Testament Book of Acts the account of Paul and Silas in prison tells a much different story. They were in the darkest part of the darkest prison at the darkest hour of the night and the Bible tells us that they spent their time there SINGING!!!

What made the difference?

I believe that it had to do with what was most important to the people involved. The Israelites were unhappy because they had lost their homes, ttheir lifestyles, and their identity as a nation. Because those things were so important to them, they had no desire to sing.

Paul and Silas lost that much and more, but they still enjoyed singing praises to God because they knew they could never lose what was most important to them. They would always have Jesus and Jesus would always be enough.

Habbakuk 3 says "Though the fig tree should not blossom, And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail, and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold, and there be no cattle in the stalls, YET I will exult in the Lord. I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!"

So what if I lose everything? I’ve got Jesus. And I’ll never lose Him. Sometimes it takes losing everything else before you realize that He is enough!