A Broken Hopeless Life
I was sitting writing a blog this morning when suddenly, one of the sparrows that nests in my carport, swooped down in front of me, I heard a unusual sound at his passing.I looked and couldn't see anything, although is sounded like he had dropped and egg. Then I began to smell something. Upon further inspection, I found the remnants of a small rotten egg.
This bird was removing the remnants of a once hoped for life.
The parents had hoped for and cherished this egg, anxiously awaiting the arrival of a viable life to rear and see to full maturity.
Often times our own hopes for our life come crashing down to be dashed on the rocks of life where a dream for new life had been placed.
Sometimes God allows our plans for our lives to rot away because He desires for us to live a life totally dependent upon Him.
Many times we feel that if we take the right steps of preparing our nest, watching and waiting expectantly, that God will surely answer our prayers for the desires of our heart but we fail to hear what the Psalmist says first.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
We fail to realize that our hearts can deceive us when we are not finding our satisfaction in God alone.
What we don't realize is that when our hope is in something other than God we have the potential to lose hope.
When the egg that we have so gingerly planted in the nest of our lives begins to be corrupted we are unaware that we have made an idol out of the good things that God wants to do in and through our lives.
We need to lean on Him and ask for His will and perspective for our lives.
Unless we are truly placing our hope in Christ we will smell the decay of hopelessness in our lives and a life we once longed for may need to be thrown from the nest of our heart.
God is a jealous God and He will have no other god's before Him and it is because of His grace and His mercy that He does not allow us sovereign control over our lives.
Otherwise we begin to act as if we are God ourselves which is the ultimate sin that caused Satan to be ejected from relationship with God never to be in communion with Him again.
When we throw aside our will and our way and all hopelessness, we are making room for new life and growth.
Reminding ourselves that God's plan is for our lives to flourish and grow and bring new life to others and not to dwell on the things that we think He did not answer.
His answer sometimes is no, sometimes later, but are we going to be satisfied in Him and find our hope in Him and Him alone or are we going to tend to the rotten egg by keeping it in our nests?
Even the sparrow knows that the presence of that rotten egg will prevent others from growing and will hinder his purpose and efforts. It has the potential to defile what remains.
We need to focus on growing and nurturing those things in our lives that are in their infancy so that we can be busy feeding our souls with the nourishment that we require for spiritual maturity and not sitting on and waiting for the things that God has chosen to withhold from us at this moment with despair and hopelessness.
He is a good good Father and He knows what is best for our lives.
Just like the father sparrow, who removes the things that will hinder his chick's growth and who brings the bread of life so they can grow and flourish and soar on the heights, so we must give our hearts and place our hope in the Lord of glory who's will it is to cause us to soar on the heights of His hope and glory with a mind set on His kingdom and not our own.
Words by Edward Mote (1797-1874) and others
Music by Francis Blight (PRS)
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
When darkness seems to veil His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath His covenant and blood
Support me in the ‘whelming flood:
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
On Christ the solid rock I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
When the last trumpet’s voice shall sound,
O may I then in him be found.
Clothed in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before his throne.
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Isaiah 26:3
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