IT MUST have been a strange sight to people in those days when they saw all the birds and animals going into the ark.
The ostrich is a strange bird that grows to a height of eight feet sometimes, but he cannot fly. It has often been said of the ostrich that sometimes he hides his head in the sand, thinking he cannot be seen by his enemies, and when he is seen, he runs away very fast—so fast, that he can even outrun a man on horseback. How much like the ostrich are boys and girls—and older ones too. Many times we try to hide ourselves from God, as Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. But God who is both light and love sees us. He wants us to know that though we are sinners, He has found a way to put away our sins so that we might never need to run away from Him again.
God wants us to come to Him, not in our own self-righteousness, but just as we are as sinners, and accept the salvation that He offers through His own dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Alone, on that cross in those hours of darkness, God put the sins of all who trust in Jesus upon His Son, and He answered to God for them all. He paid the whole debt. Now by faith we can come into God’s very presence, and need not be afraid anymore, if Jesus is our Saviour.
ML-06/22/1969