Isaiah 40:26 (New International Version)
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all
these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
and calls forth
each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them
is missing.
The information below isn't verified but it is a great illustration
If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square
and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be
an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from
the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his
habit, he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in
a small jail with no top.
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable
nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is pl!
aced on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly
and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it
can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler will be
there until it dies unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape
at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near
the bottom.
It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely
destroys itself.
In a lot of ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat and
the bee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, not
realizing that if we look up to God, we will find the answer.
Dear Lord we pray that we would look up to You. We pray
that when struggle we wouldn’t just look down around us for the answer but that
we would lift our eyes to You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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