As I sat at the red light I watch the black birds gathering along the railroad tracks. It started out as just one or two and before long there were probably 30 or 40 of them. They seemed to stay grouped together as if they were moving in a herd of some sort.
As my light turned green and accelerated I could tell that the vibration of my truck on the pavement was warning the birds to get out of the way. All of a sudden in one swift fluid motion they all lept into the air and flew away to my left as if in a black cloud. All of them stayed together except one. This single black bird flew to my right and landed on a fence.
As I continued driving I thought about this one bird. Why didn't he go along with everyone else? Was that his family or his pack (you know, like dogs)? Was he just a young bird who didn't know any different? Or, was he older and it was his time to separate himself from the others? Why? Why wouldn't that bird just follow the crowd...?
As soon as that last thought crossed my mind I immediately began to think about man and how we fly to the left with everyone else. I began to think about how hard it is for us to fly to the right and land on a fence all by ourselves. I found myself running back over instances and circumstances in recent days where I flew with the crowd and didn't stand on my own. I began to admire this right flying, fence sitting bird.
Although it may appear to the world that we are flying alone we never are!! Matthew 28:20 says "...I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (NLT). To me, when I read those words I can feel my Daddy wrapping his arms around me and squeezing me in a tight bear hug whispering in my ear that everything is going to be okay, He's here.
Some days it is hard to have the courage to fly to the right all by ourselves while everyone else stays grouped together flying to the left. But, always have the confidence, the security, the strength to know that you aren't flying alone!
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