Proverbs 27: 8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place.
From the very beginning God meant for man to go beyond the comfortable nest where we were created.
Growing up in the projects shouldn’t mean living in the projects once you’re grown.
Proverbs 27:8. A bird feels safe in the place where it was hatched. Mama brings it food, and in the established pecking order of its nest-mates the bird may become important, even dominant. But---- birds only stay in the nest if they never fly.
Flight is scary and risky. You might fail, and failing means falling. Nevertheless, flying is what birds are supposed to do,
If the bird never flies, it’ll starve because mama will abandon it. Even If mama doesn’t, if she keeps bringing food to the earthbound chick then eventually the “baby” will outgrow the nest and fall anyway.
Flying may be risky, but it’s what birds are made to do.
From the very beginning God meant for man to go beyond the comfortable nest where we were created.
“Fill the earth,” God commanded, but humanity didn’t want to go. Our ancestors clustered together at Babel (Genesis 11) and tried to stretch their necks into heaven to reach God’s provision for themselves. Didn’t work though. We ended up leaving the place in confusion and division.
Birds and people are meant to go beyond their comfortable zones of origin. It is risky. Failure is a distinct possibility, but you’re not supposed to only be what you’ve always been.
Growing up in the projects shouldn’t mean living in the projects once you’re grown.
Being a victim of abuse or neglect as a child shouldn’t mean perpetuating the cycle of abuse as an adult.
Committing a crime & serving time for it doesn’t automatically mean you to live a life of crime until it kills you.
Sinning & walking outside of God’s doesn’t mean you have to wallow in misery and darkness until you close your eyes in death and open them in Hell.
A history of hypocrisy, stagnation, & complacency in a church doesn’t mean that the ministry can’t become authentic, prosperous, & powerful.
We were not created to stay where we are to remain only as we were. You don’t have to stay in your lane. Sometimes you need to get out of your lane and take a ramp that leads to someplace unfamiliar and risky.
Leave the nest and fly.
----- Anderson T. Graves II
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church
Call/ fax: 334-288-0577
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Hall Memorial CME Church
541 Seibles Rd.,
Montgomery, AL 36116
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