Love Unfailing

I know I have gone through many times where I wonder if God still loves me. Sometimes I feel as if God will reject me because of my sin. It was incredible to see how God used this little bird to teach me a lesson on the subject.

6.30 am ... there I was, wandering around the training base, snapping some shots with my camera. I hear a rustling to the left of me. I approach the sound, only to find a tiny bird flapping around in the grass. Not wasting a second, I picked up the defenseless creature and carried it back to base.

After my new feathered friend was introduced to all my fellow trainees, we set out to find food and shelter.

A day passed ...

To us this bird had become a permanent resident because, if you know anything about birds, a mother will reject her baby if it has been touched by humans. The scent of the human stays on the baby and the mother will no longer recognise it and banish it from the nest.

To our shock, that afternoon the mother faithfully came to find her chick and feed it.

This continued for the next three days. Every morning and every afternoon, the mother would come and feed her baby. On the third day, both parents came and fetched their little one.

Isn't that how we sometimes feel? That we reek of sin and that God will simply reject us?

No ... just like the parents of this little bird never gave up, remaining faithful to their young one no matter how many humans had touched it, just so God never gives up on us.

God will look past our sin ... all we have to do is run back to him.