“Did I just see what I am thinking I saw?”, I said as I hurried to the window. “Yep! That is exactly what it was!” I could not believe that BB (my blind ram) ran, (legitimately ran) past my window.
But why though? What would make a blind sheep, (who usually carefully calculates every step), take a risk like that? I couldn’t figure it out….just fifteen minutes before I saw the streak of white zoom past the window, BB and his buddy had been peacefully grazing underneath a pear tree in the yard. “I don’t know BB….that was weird. I’m just glad you didn’t run in to something you crazy boy!”I said as I scratched his face.
As I turned the corner, I saw it. My heart sank as as I realized that fear is what caused BB to run. A huge limb crashed down just a few feet from where I had last seen the sheep taking shelter from the heat. Poor BB! Can you imagine feeling so safe, so comfortable, and then suddenly the sky is falling? It would be terrifying to anyone, but can you imagine how much more frightening it would be if you were blind?
Haven’t we all been blindsided lately? Can’t we all agree that if we could run from our circumstances that we would? Hasn’t it seemed that just as life was returning to normal, the sky started falling……again? Gloom, doom, and devastation…that seems to be our new norm. But just as BB was comforted by my words, like us take comfort in the words of our Shepherd.
1 Peter 5:8-11
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
My prayer today is when we want to run in fear, that instead, we allow ourselves to be settled by our Shepherd.
