I was driving home from work this evening and glanced up at
the sky as a small group of geese flew overhead. We see geese year-round, with particularly large
numbers of them in the fall. There were
6 or 7 in this group, flying in an unbalanced V formation, drifting a bit this
way and that as they moved across the sky.
What they were doing was, in its own way, perfect. They were moving the way they were designed
to. Geese seldom fly alone. Sometimes there are just two of them and other
times they are in much larger groups.
They don’t fly side-by-side but always with one goose leading and the
others occupying the slipstream. It is
the way they fly in Rochester, where we live, if they are just going a few
miles out to feed and then returning for the evening. And it is the way they fly when they leave
Rochester for their wintering ground in southern Illinois, a distance of nearly
600 miles, which I understand they may cover in one day.
And looking at geese, flying in the way they were designed
to, something which, as they do it is perfect, pointed me towards God, who is
perfect in each and every one of His characteristics. Psalm 19 opens with these
words:
“The
heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”
This evening, for me, it was a flock of geese that pointed towards
God and His perfect glory. How and where
is God making Himself known to you today?
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