The Ostrich...

Job 39:13-18 (The Message)

 "The ostrich flaps her wings futilely—all those beautiful feathers, but useless!

She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,

Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal.

She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. She cares nothing about anything.

She wasn't created very smart, that's for sure, wasn't given her share of good sense.

But when she runs, oh, how she runs, laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.

Lamentations 4:3 (The Message)
3Even wild jackals nurture their babies, give them their breasts to suckle. But my people have turned cruel to their babies, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

A couple of months ago, I was experiencing trials that brought pain to my soul. I prayed that God would help me not to care so much about the things happening around me. I prayed that I would be able to not care, I felt like I cared to much. I felt like, if I could learn not to care so much I would be better off, less pain and hurt. People or citations wouldn't be able to take my joy and happiness.

When I heard this scripture....I felt shame for even praying for such a thing. My heart even though it hurt, it was still soft as flesh.

The scripture implies that we are useless if we don't care; that we are cruel when we don't care. So my new prayer is that I am able to still have my joy and happiness even through the trials. That I would have wisdom and understanding to be victorious.

Job 39:17 (New King James Version) Because God deprived her of wisdom,
And did not endow her with understanding.

We need to understand that just because we have problems.....doesn't mean we shouldn't bury our head in the dirt and act like its not there like an ostrich! 

 Don't run from it.....like an ostrich runs, faster and swifter than a horse!

We are the head not the tail, above not beneath! If you stay on the attack.... you wont be under attack! Like David ran to Goliath in the battle...we need to run to the battle, face it! The bible never says we wont be in the battle but how does the battle take place? Do you pursue the enemy or does the enemy pursue you?

The enemy will come...to kill, steal and destroy....are you prepared to fight to keep the dominion?

The ostrich doesn't fight, he hides and runs! The Scripture says in Lamentations 4:3 But my people have turned cruel to their babies, like an ostrich in the wilderness. The don't think about their kids. She doesn't care; She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather, Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal. She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. This is what we are when we don't run to the battle. If the enemy pursues us it also pursues our children. When we go to war with other countries, we don't want the war to be here....we want to keep the war in the other country. So our kids and families stay safe! If you aren't fighting and pursuing the enemy, then you r kids are in danger, its just like war. The scripture says even wild jackals nurture their young!

Whats crazy is the ostrich is the biggest bird! BUT she can not fly! How often we want these positions and titles....we want to be the biggest bird! If you are the biggest bird, will you fly? God has called us to be like eagles not ostriches!

There will always be storms, the eagle fly above the storm and sees the storm coming from afar.

The eagle lives prepared for the storm.

Will you?