A Quiet Strength

I watched something interesting the other day.  A hawk was perched atop a light pole and an angry crow was repeatedly dive bombing him.  Now I don’t know if the hawk did something to incite the attack or if the crow simply saw the hawk as a potential threat and therefore figured he better try and take care of it.

 

What immediately struck me, though, was the hawk’s demeanor.  Not once did he flinch or move a single feather in response to the crow’s ongoing attack.  He just sat there with an air of quiet strength.  Maybe he knew something the crow didn’t, like the fact that one quick swipe of his talons and the crow would be toast. Whatever the reason, it made me think.

Like the hawk, we too, are constantly under attack from the enemy of our souls. Why?  Because as Christians we are a threat to the kingdom of darkness. How do we usually end up responding when the attacks come?  Do we stand or sit with a quiet strength like the hawk? Or do we duck and run and try to hide?  Do we even know we too possess a quiet strength?  It is nothing of ourselves, it is the strength that comes from God.

 

God is the One in charge. God is the One who commands what happens and what doesn’t.  As God’s children, we get to stand in His strength.  So no matter the attack, we need not fear, we need not flinch because nothing can overrule or overcome our heavenly Father.

Yet in all things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39

Dina Pugh