Birds are naturally wary creatures. They have to be in order to survive.
The Northern Gannet spends most of its life at sea, purge-diving for fish, yet man still found a way to capture it. While breeding on rocky coastlines, nooses at the ends of long poles were slipped around the birds’ necks, and they were ensnared.
Other methods of taking birds:
Traps, whether spring-loaded, corrals, or simple boards that crush the animal, have been used for centuries.
Birdlime is a sticky material applied to the birds’ perches. Birds’ tendons grip with amazing pressure, but there is little outward force. The birds cannot escape.
Netting can be fired from cannons to take down a flock, or strung between trees to entangle individuals.
Christians are like these birds. The devil comes at us with yelling or other loud noises, frightening us with terrible calamities. His goal is to get us to leap from our resting spots in the Lord and directly into the devil’s nets.
If we scatter, we become entangled, and we cannot get free.
Psalm 91:3 tells us that God will save us from the snare of the one who would entrap us.
Psalm 124:7 gives us additional hope, for in this verse, the snare is broken, and as the birds from the hunter’s net, our souls are escaped.
Yet, there is another verse that lifts us even closer to the mountaintop, for in Ezekiel 13:20, God speaks directly to the evil one, and his words ring with power and authority.
God’s Word of Power:
I am against you, for you hunt my children with yelling and loud noises, frightening them from the safety of my arms.
God’s Word of Authority:
I will tear the nets of entrapment wide, and my children will be set free, even those you have captured with your nets of deception.
The devil has a hundred ways of trapping God’s children. However, God has all the power and the authority. When God says to let his children free, the devil evaporates into a puff of morning mist, and his power becomes nothing.
God has all the power, and the devil has none at all.
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