Bird Watching for the Wise | In Living Color: Lesson 2 | 09.02.2018

About this sermon

Stephen Davey is teaching through the Bible with a new lesson each weekday. Watch episode 1 here: https://youtu.be/v1yx-2eg5NQ?sub_confirmation=1 ... Study the natural world to gain greater insight into God's character, creativity, and care. This article focuses on birds as an illustration, with an emphasis on Biblical lessons for Christians. Today we looked at creation, but more specifically, at birds. Birds teach us valuable lessons about our Creator. Scripture shows us that God watches over birds and provides for them (Matthew 6:26). There are four ways that birds teach us some theological truths. Birds provide an example of being persistent. Everything that we do should be for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31). We should work hard and diligently (Eccl. 9:10a). Birds show us how God protects us. We take refuge in God. (Psalm 57:1) Birds also show us the mysterious ways of God. God’s ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). And finally, birds show us a pattern of returning to walk with God. So often, we stray from our Creator and do not have the sense (as birds do) to fly back home.

Topics

• Wisdom