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What's good for the goose (1)
'Look at the birds in the sky!' Matthew 6:26
Next time you're exercising your worry muscles over a pimple or a split end, you want to look heavenwards to our feathered little friends. That's what Jesus says: 'I tell you not to worry about your life ... Look at the birds in the sky!' Now this isn't hippy-speak from the long-haired one; there are lessons to be learned from birds.
Take geese for example. When geese fly south for their jollidays they don't pack a suitcase for one. Geese fly in droves. They group together in their famous flying 'V' formation, because when a bird flaps its wings the air movement created provides uplift, easing the workload of the bird behind it. Together, their flight range increases about 71 per cent. Even the youngest, weakest and oldest geese can make the trip. They accomplish together what they could never achieve separately. There's a lesson here.
The Bible says, 'Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another ...' (Heb. 10:25 NIV), or in other words: no flying off solo. Why? Well, when a goose strays off from the flying 'V' formula, he soon finds he's cream-crackered. He loses altitude. He's doing the work of a hundred geese all by himself. What about you - are you in a flap, doing the work and worry of ten men when you could be soaring with God and His people?
written by Bob Gass
'Look at the birds in the sky!' Matthew 6:26
Next time you're exercising your worry muscles over a pimple or a split end, you want to look heavenwards to our feathered little friends. That's what Jesus says: 'I tell you not to worry about your life ... Look at the birds in the sky!' Now this isn't hippy-speak from the long-haired one; there are lessons to be learned from birds.
Take geese for example. When geese fly south for their jollidays they don't pack a suitcase for one. Geese fly in droves. They group together in their famous flying 'V' formation, because when a bird flaps its wings the air movement created provides uplift, easing the workload of the bird behind it. Together, their flight range increases about 71 per cent. Even the youngest, weakest and oldest geese can make the trip. They accomplish together what they could never achieve separately. There's a lesson here.
The Bible says, 'Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another ...' (Heb. 10:25 NIV), or in other words: no flying off solo. Why? Well, when a goose strays off from the flying 'V' formula, he soon finds he's cream-crackered. He loses altitude. He's doing the work of a hundred geese all by himself. What about you - are you in a flap, doing the work and worry of ten men when you could be soaring with God and His people?
written by Bob Gass
