Subject: God's protective wings
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 01:49:41 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

From:  Steve  Cope
To:   heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: God's protecting wings


A message from God's creation.

Ps 17:8, Ps 63:7, Ps 91:4, Mat 23:37

An article in National Geographic several years ago provided a
penetrating picture of God's wings.  After a forest fire in Yellowstone
National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess
the inferno's damage.  One ranger found a  bird literally petrified in
ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree.

Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a
stick.  When he struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their
dead mother's wings.  The loving mother, keenly aware of impending
disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had
gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic
smoke would rise.  She could have flown to safety but had refused to 
abandon her babies.  When the blaze had arrived and the heat
had singed her small body, the mother had remained steadfast.  
Because she had been willing to die, those under the cover of her 
wings would live.

 "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou
trust" (Ps 91:4).  

Learn to experience the warmth and protection of life
beneath the wings of the Almighty.

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