A BIRD’S RESTING PLACE

Man is always in search of a dwelling place

He is on a constant quest to meet his daily needs

Quest for power, wealth, fame, and shelter

With each passing day, his cares and concerns grow

Look at me, I am a bird of the sky, I can build my nest anywhere

I fly in freedom, not in a cage and I am not searching for my daily bread

When night comes man must rest from the struggles of the day

In their own little world they hardly ever sleep

Wondering minds pacing up and down in the dark

While man ponders on his bed at night, I am on mine so fast asleep

When morning comes I sing a new song from my nest:

“What is man’s highest purpose? What is man’s greatest need?”

Why can’t man learn to separate his needs from his wants?

He keeps clinging to so many things he will never need

Look at me, all I want is what I need

Tomorrow’s bread will be ready when I awake

Nothing in this world brings lasting happiness

In my resting place, there you will find peace

I was making my nest on a tree under a raging rushing waterfall

I saw a man going to a quiet still lake to find rest

I caught him steering at me in amazement, thinking out loud!

A Birds resting place I seek to understand

How can a bird find rest in the midst of such raging storm?

Surely rest is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm

Rest in the Lord oh my soul, trust in him alone

Be strong in the Lord, don’t go through life in fear

His love will never fail even if the sky is falling

In him, my soul will find peace in the midst of the waves

Hebrews 4:11,

Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (KJV)

Hebrews 4: 11 did not say labor to be rich; labor to be healthy; labor to get delivered, the word was: labor to enter into his rest.

Resting in God’s presence is a secret truth, God’s Holy Spirit is ever ready to reveal to those who seek to understand this truth. A man is on a constant quest to meet his daily needs, this begins a cycle of labor and struggles, with each passing day our cares and concerns grow. We find ourselves laboring to get so many things we think life has to offer rather than to be laboring to be at peace and at rest.

God will not work while we are working, he will only work while we are resting. The greatest expression of faith in God is to rest. If we are worried, full of care, wondering, and stressed all the time, we don’t give Him space to work in our life. He designed us to operate out of rest, we were not designed to operate out of stress, care or worry. Yet the world is filled with people who are constantly under stress and cares.

1 Peter 5:7,

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. (NKJV)

Our burdens were not designed for us to carry. He said we should cast all our cares unto him. Let us try something symbolic today, imagine we are in the courts of Heaven-gazing at the throne of God, let us bow low before our maker, father, helper, and giver of everything, then cast every care unto him and you will see that He truly cares for us. When we find ourselves in care, stress and worry let it indicate to us that we are not at rest, anything that is blocking our rest is blocking our best and our manifestations of the finished works of Christ in our life.

Matthew 11:28-29,

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (NIV)

The sheep know two things, Sheep know that they don’t know, sheep know that the shepherd knows and that’s all sheep needs to know, thus sheep don’t struggle, they have nothing to worry about and nothing to be stressed out about. They just follow the shepherd and totally depend on him for everything. Sheep are at rest! I have never seen a bird stressed out about where next meal will come from. None of God’s creation appears to be stressed out except man. Is it not amazing that God can take care of the whole animal kingdom but can’t take care of Man the way he wants, because we won’t let him. Man still thinks he knows more than the shepherd.

Isaiah 26:3,

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. (KJV)

What then is the key to entering into God’s rest? The problem is that our mind is on everything else and we don’t trust God enough to keep our minds on the word. The word of God is the seed we need to combat stress thus if we take some time every day to digest the word we will find peace, then we will find it easier to enter into his rest,

When we finally understand the bird’s resting place, means we have gotten to that point in our life when we don’t just care anymore about what to eat, what to drink and where to live. The birds resting place is a place of peace even in the midst of the storm it is to know for sure that all our needs will be met according to God’s riches in glory. It is a place where we find peace.