Nobody Knows.
Nobody knows what the birds are really like. Nobody knows the way things really are, as they were meant to be. People have spent their lifetimes studying nature, all the birds of the air, and all things in the sea and all on the land.
Nobody knows what we, the people of the earth. are really like. People have spent their lifetimes studying the habits and body language and behavior in all environments and cultures from one end of the world to the other. Lifetimes of study only resulting in half-truths and conjecture. Scientists strive to understand all things, but they fall short.
Think of birds: their songs, their beauty, then think of the animals; all creatures great and small. Now, try to imagine them without fear.
I watched the birds this morning, as the dawn came. They were singing with vigor and were drinking the water and eating the seeds by our flower garden that we put out for them. As I watched them, suddenly I saw that they were nervous, and fearful that they might be attacked, so they weren't eating and drinking in peace. And then I saw heaven's birds, and it was as if I had never seen birds before, just as beautiful as ever, but at peace.
And think of us...all mankind, without fear. Without depression, oppression, despair, loneliness, no betrayals, no sickness. No one hates, no one kills, no one dies. That is the way it was meant to be. And that's why nobody knows, because they don't know a world without sin, or darkness or fear.
What a world of love is ahead. How foolish we are to hold on to this world, instead of living for the life of love that we are promised. And all the angels we will meet, and the stories we'll tell together of the battlefield of the Father, and what they did and what we did together to help Him rescue the perishing. So many stories there will be, and how glad we will be that we loved Him well, and did our best for Him in all things.
Will this be so of your life? Jesus' sacrifice calls to us to join Him in the rescue of the world; from murder and suicide, terror and fear. And when all things are done, we will know that we helped Him with all our might, all our heart, all our strength, to enter His faultless realm, holding the hands of all those we have brought to the cross, with all of us whole and free, as He made us to be.
Nobody knows what we, the people of the earth. are really like. People have spent their lifetimes studying the habits and body language and behavior in all environments and cultures from one end of the world to the other. Lifetimes of study only resulting in half-truths and conjecture. Scientists strive to understand all things, but they fall short.
Think of birds: their songs, their beauty, then think of the animals; all creatures great and small. Now, try to imagine them without fear.
I watched the birds this morning, as the dawn came. They were singing with vigor and were drinking the water and eating the seeds by our flower garden that we put out for them. As I watched them, suddenly I saw that they were nervous, and fearful that they might be attacked, so they weren't eating and drinking in peace. And then I saw heaven's birds, and it was as if I had never seen birds before, just as beautiful as ever, but at peace.
And think of us...all mankind, without fear. Without depression, oppression, despair, loneliness, no betrayals, no sickness. No one hates, no one kills, no one dies. That is the way it was meant to be. And that's why nobody knows, because they don't know a world without sin, or darkness or fear.
What a world of love is ahead. How foolish we are to hold on to this world, instead of living for the life of love that we are promised. And all the angels we will meet, and the stories we'll tell together of the battlefield of the Father, and what they did and what we did together to help Him rescue the perishing. So many stories there will be, and how glad we will be that we loved Him well, and did our best for Him in all things.
Will this be so of your life? Jesus' sacrifice calls to us to join Him in the rescue of the world; from murder and suicide, terror and fear. And when all things are done, we will know that we helped Him with all our might, all our heart, all our strength, to enter His faultless realm, holding the hands of all those we have brought to the cross, with all of us whole and free, as He made us to be.
