Listen to the Birds Sing!

 

I am glad that Spring is here now.    It is good to see longer days and see the flora around us coming alive again.  As the weather is getting warmer, we are keeping our windows and doors open more and more.  In the early minutes of daylight a few years ago, Ann and I listened as the birds sang in the trees.  As Ann and I listened to the birds singing, she commented, “Each of them is singing a different song.”

In Job 12: 7-10, we hear these words,   7 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.    As we hear the birds sing, they are telling us the truth that the Lord God has made them and that God has made us.  God is the one that gives breath to the birds of the air near our home,  but he also is the one that gives us life and breath.   As the birds of the air have their song to sing, each of us has our own song to sing to the glory of God.  Let us sing that song this day and in this life. 

 

PRAYER :     O God,  we give you thanks for the birds that sing and all the creatures you have made.  We especially thank you for our lives.  Hear our prayers of praise to you this day, and help our lives to praise you always; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.