What Have You Done For Me Lately

Whitefish Point is a peninsula of land that sticks ten miles out into Lake Superior.  It is a popular destination for tourists interested in lighthouses and shipwrecks.  Every year it is also a focal point for the migration of birds going north into Canada.  By following the point, the distance necessary to cross the open water is ten miles shorter, and that's a good thing if you are a bird.  During the end of April and the Beginning of May, the skies can be filled with hundreds of hawks and other birds heading north.

On April I was there and along with the massive numbers of hawks, circling in the sky over head there were three golden eagles.  Golden eagles look much like our bald eagles except they have a black/gold coloring.  A few pass through the state each year, but they are far from common.  And here were three.  At one time.  Right over head.  It was cool to see.  But as time went on our attention went to other things.  There were massive numbers of other hawks around,  At one point someone pointed out, "You realize that there are three GOLDEN EAGLES flying over us now and none of us are even bothering to look at them." It seems that very quickly the amazing can turn into the ho hum.

The same is true in our walk with God.  It is amazing how quickly the spectacular can turn into yesterday's news.  When I was on the church board of directors, each meeting would start with a devotional time.  On one occasion, the leader went through his prayer journal and for each person there he reminded us of  some need we had been praying for and we talked about how that turned out.  It is easy to lose sight of all of the blessings in our life.

Watch this clip from Pastor Chris.

It is easy to lose focus on what God has done and think more on what we want God to do now.  Like the Israelites, we can move quickly from seeing the Glory of God to thinking that we are all alone.  But that is no more true for us than it was for them.