Tuesday 26 April 2016
STORY: SOMEONE SUPERIOR IS WATCHING
There was a nature show on television about a black bear that gave birth
to two cubs. One cub died right away. Three weeks later the mother died and
the remaining cub was left to fend for itself. An orphaned cub in that
condition is like a walking buffet for predators. And of course the camera
immediately showed a hungry-looking mountain lion.
One day the orphan cub encountered a giant male black bear. The little cub
cowered at the bear's sheer mass. The larger bear peered around and seemed
to realize that the mother bear wasn't anywhere to be found. He gave the
little cub a friendly nudge. The camera then showed the little bear happily
trailing along after the larger one. The adoption papers were signed,
sealed and registered at the county seat in that nudge. Papa bear proceeded
to show the cub how to grub for insects and how to catch fish and how to
scratch his back against a tree.
One day the two bears became separated. The cub began to cry and looked
frantically for his new father, but couldn't find him anywhere. The cub
approached a stream where he'd learned to fish and something caught his attention. He looked up to see a mountain lion ready to pounce. That same mountain lion had stalked the cub for the entire show. There was no way
that mountain lion would've gone for that cub with Papa bear around, but now....
The camera zoomed in on the cub. He automatically mimicked the posture of> his adopted father when threatened. He stood on his hind legs and bared his
teeth. Then, in the exactly the same way his new father would have done,
this cub let loose a mighty growl that should have reverberated throughout
the forest. But, only a tiny bear cub squeak came out.
Well, you know what was coming. But, to everybody's astonishment the
mountain lion lowered his head and ran off in the opposite direction.
The camera panned back to the proud little cub still standing tall on his
hind legs. And then all the viewers saw what that little cub could not: a
few yards behind him, at full, ferocious height, his sharp, white teeth
bared in a snarl, stood Daddy bear. He may not have made a sound, but he
was there.
And even though the cub couldn't see his father, his father stood guard,
protecting his young. The little cub had power available greater than
anything he could produce on his own. Someone greater was watching over
him.
"You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater
is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." (1 John 4:4)
Stay confident and courageous in the Lord.
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Leonaldo Da Vinci once said:
"I have been impressed by the urgency of doing. Knowing isn't enough; we must apply. Being willingly isn't enough; we must do."
He was right!
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