Crows are rather interesting birds. A few weeks ago there was a story about two crows playing with a ball. Today we have one about a crow that was kind. This happened in the peanut-growing area of Georgia.
As I was looking outside one morning several years ago, I saw a large flock of crows flying across the morning sky. I watched what seemed to be an endless line of the big black birds leaving their winter roosts miles away to the west and heading for the peanut fields a few miles north of our farm. Every morning during the winter months they made this trip, and each evening they returned by the same sky route.
Watching the crows, two of them left the flock and flew directly toward our garden. One of them was a small, rough-feathered, scrawny bird with a broken leg. He landed on the ground where a few scraps from the kitchen had been thrown out. The other crow, an extra-large, sleek bird landed on a tree limb overhanging the garden. From his perch he kept watch while the crippled crow fluttered here and there picking up food. Every now and then the big crow would fly down and scratch around exposing some more tidbits for his crippled friend.
This continued for almost an hour. Then the big crow gave a loud “caw-caw,” and he and his crippled friend took off. I watched them until they disappeared over the distant oak trees. I could easily imagine the big, strong crow making sure that his crippled friend was comfortably perched for the day and then, his work done, flying on alone to join the peanut feasters.
The crippled crow was being cared for and protected by a friend who was able to help him. We, too, are crippled. Sin has crippled us. We have a Friend that is “able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him.” Hebrews 7:2525Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25). This Friend is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Each one of us without the Lord Jesus is as weak and helpless as the crippled crow. We would die in our sins if there were not Someone who is able and willing to save us. He can save us from the punishment our sins deserve, because He took the punishment for these sins on the cross. All we have to do is accept Him as our Saviour. How strange it is when we do not accept the help someone wants to give us, the very help we need. Yet there are many people who are doing just that by refusing God’s gift of everlasting life. It is free to anyone who will accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
ML-04/04/1982