It was a classic scene that could have been turned into a cartoon with a caption “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. My mother told me to pick the very best one and that is Y-O-U.” It was the side of a city building with tiered ledges. On the top ledge sat a beautiful peregrine falcon and on the second ledge below sat a row of a couple dozen pigeons. It was breakfast time for the hawk. I can’t imagine the pigeons didn’t know it was there. I think they were playing the “Don’t Move” game. “If I don’t move it won’t pick me. The first one that flinches gets it.” It’s a game my students often play when I ask a question and no one will make eye-contact with me.
This is so different from playing “Pick Up” before a baseball game where each child is jumping up and down saying, “Pick me. Pick me.” Some people think of salvation and eternal life in such terms. They are frozen stiff trying to hide from Satan and they are jumping up and down begging God to pick them. The good news is God is so much more powerful than Satan, so it doesn’t matter if Satan picks you. Well, actually he has. You have been on his menu for a long time. But you have also been on God’s A-List for a long, long time. Listen to this great text from Jeremiah, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee . . .” Now I know you are tempted to say that was a private message just for Jeremiah. So let’s read Acts10:34, it says, “God is no respecter of persons” which means all of us are treated just the same by God. You and I are chosen! Yeah! Double Yeah! Triple Yeah!
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 15, 2011
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