No place I'd rather be...
I'm sure thats exactly what those cygnets were thinking as they floated in this pond. (Who knew a baby swan was called a cygnet? I didn't). I mean think about it, we humans get blankets made out of the down feathers because they are warm and cozy. Those babies get not only the warm feathers, but the security of their mother's wing to surround them. And that security is what reminded me of this picture.
This weekend I've had some time to think as I've been house sitting while family is away. I got out my guitar and just started singing, as I was singing I was then convicted of my insecurity. I realized that I have been letting insecurity be apart of my everyday life, and so many things would come out of my mouth that I would later regret because of the status of my heart. My patience has been short, and my temper quick. Truthfully I've realized that my own worst enemy, myself, was creating a wedge between me and God. It was preventing me from being able to love and trust Him and others as I should. Not to mention pressures the I have been putting on myself to prove my value and worth. In the midst of a waterfall of tears I asked forgiveness, but then I felt drawn to open my daily verse in my bible app. It was Psalm 91:1-2 "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!" I knew instantly it was God's response to my crying out. He was reminding me where my security comes from. You see we don't think of feathers something to keep us safe, but that's exactly where we are told to hide. When we place our trust and identity in the Lord, we find security and in that security we find identity and with that identity we can truly be light as a feather because we aren't carrying any of the burdens but just resting in His presence.
Psalm 91:
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most
High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I
will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!”
3 For it is He who delivers you from the snare of
the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence. 4 He
will cover you with His pinions,
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His
faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. 5 You
will not be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;
6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Or of
the destruction that lays waste at noon. 7 A
thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But
it shall not approach you. 8 You
will only look on with your eyes
And see the recompense of the wicked.
9 For you have made the Lord, my refuge,
Even
the Most High, your dwelling place. 10 No
evil will befall you, Nor will any plague come near your tent.
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning
you,
To guard you in all your ways. 12 They
will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a
stone. 13 You will tread upon
the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will
deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My
name. 15 “He will call upon Me,
and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and
honor him.
16 “With a long life I
will satisfy him
And let him see My
salvation.
