I have heard of people preaching in all sorts of ways and to a wide variety of audiences, but this one is a little different. In fact a very different audience!
Our author this week, well not so much an author as the subject of a biography, The little flowers of St Francis. Which is of course about St Francis of Assisi. Following his brief 44 year life time this man's voice has echoed down through the ages to this day. This preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order of monks. St Francis lived on the cusp of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Having confirmed his calling to preach salvation to the world through the most prominent intercessors and mystics of his time. He went about his task with great gusto. He had such authority that he could command the birds to be silent and to sing, which they duly did! As I said he preached to a very different audience............. a flock or more precisely a collection of different bird species. He told them about salvation and gratitude to Christ. That they needed to lift their voices in praise in gratitude for their Saviour and they did as he commanded. So next time you here the dawn chorus, you may take a slightly different slant on it.
There is a simple lesson in here for us. We like the birds need to regularly acknowledge with gratitude and praise the work of our Saviour. Practicing an attitude of gratitude and praising God will change you life. I know, I have been consciously practicing gratitude for the past year and it has made such I difference in my life. I look at things so differently. Try it you may like!
I am just starting to really come back to private praise and worship. However, I must say it was such a blessing to be back in God's House after nearly two months away. Our corporate worship was awesome last weekend!
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