Higher Up!

If you tear down a sparrow's nest the bird will soon build the nest again in the same place as it was before. However, if you pull the nest down a couple times, the sparrow will seek a new place--a location that is higher up, and beyond your destructive reach.

Sometimes God's creatures are wiser than Christians. Too many Christians form dwelling places in this temporal world - places of security in money, relationships, power, fame, and status - only to see them pulled down time after time. Yet after each brief interval of hurt, frustrations, and pain, they begin building all over again in the same places.

They never realize that through their affliction the Lord is directing them to put their security higher up - not building here, but in heaven.

Copyright 1999 by Ken Sapp