“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away and be at rest.”
I thought that I had written on this text but when I checked there was not a title listed under this text. So, there will be one now. Whenever I read this text I think: “Man, I really identify with David’s thinking on this text." Sometime we think that it would be nice to just “fly away and be a rest.” You and I are living in troubled times, just as David was when he wrote this text. But, like David, we can’t just “fly away.” I thought of two reasons why we can’t “fly away, and I want to share them with you. First, we are living in this time because we were born in this time. I know that you know this, but perhaps you need reminding: We cannot choose the time in which we live. I have the “Sunday Morning in Sleep Hollow” print on my den wall. The people in the seventeenth century look so relaxed and comfortable. It is peaceful to look at, but I can’t go back to that time, and if I did, there would still be trouble of some kind. I imagine that there were times when the people in that print would have liked to just “fly away and be at rest." At any rate, we need to remember that God willed that we should be born in this time. So, as they say, “We need to suck it up buttercup” and accept that we are here by God’s design. Second, we can’t just “fly away and be at rest” because God has us in this time for a purpose, or for purposes. There are things that need to be done that only we can do. That looks kind of scary doesn’t it? Most of us do not think that we are that significant, but we must be because we are here. What is it that the Lord Jesus wants with you in this time? I do not know what your spiritual gifts are, but you need to discover them and get about the business of serving the Lord in your time. I have been a preacher for fifty seven years and I never dreamed that this time in my life, the Lord wanted to use me to write. If you are reading this, you know that this is what I am trying to do. Frankly, I thought that I would preach until I was too old to do it anymore. But He still uses me in the pulpit from time to time, but my ministry is “CouchPotatoRedux.” This is one of the purposes of why I am here. What is your purpose(s)? I am writing this to remind myself that I am here for the purposes of God’s kingdom work. I also want to help you understand the same thing for yourself. I do not know your spiritual condition. It might be that you need to start at the beginning and ask Jesus to save you. Whatever the case, you cannot “fly away and be at rest” because the Lord Jesus Christ wants to use you. Turn loose and let Him do it.. Bro. Joe
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