Hebrews 11:13 ... they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

The bird again. Have you ever felt like running against walls where a door was supposed to be? As if somebody had removed it, laughing like mad at your confusion and pain? Have you ever done a thing you thought great and good and got nothing but trouble out of it?

What do you do? Praise God, for if it truly was a good thing, the recompense coming from God will be even greater, where this world despises it? Thank God for the adversity? For the impenetrable walls that seem to leave no way out? Like a nightmare or a horror movie, where what is good is mocked to praise the evil deed? This world is - and should be a nightmare - for God's true children. Welcome to heaven. This world will hate the smell of it with fury and call it bad names. 

It'll help get closer to God. Promise.

Psalm 145:14 The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who are falling and raises up all those who are bowed down.

I have often felt like falling. But never as much as lately, when everything I have been working for seems to be taken from me. All things I have worked hard for achieving are eluding me, as if given to somebody else. It feels as if I were falling and falling and falling.  With nobody I would have thought of to be there. All alone.

With nobody I would have thought of to be there. All alone.  - But this is not written to complain. The more I fall, the more I become grateful for the falling. There is a beauty in it, that I didn't know about.  I have to trust that God will catch me somehow. Even if I will get wet. Or have been getting wet. I'll do it again. God is awesome and great. The world has become a sweet and meaningful place by falling, by having to give up my own importance. (Even if I am still choking every now and than, I pray God will see me through the choking as well, I feel like a cow to always chew and rechew things... he knows, he can save.)

Gen. 3:10 And he (Adam) said, I heard thy (God's) voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Which position is more beautiful? Which is more dangerous? Walking in the light or in darkness? Both have different advantages depending on who or what we are. 

Blending in is usually the safest spot to be in. Which is why many small animals have learned to survive by  mimicking sourroundings, by adapting in color or/and shape. Which is, what Adam and Eve did when they started to fear God's presence. It had become a terror to them. But there is no hiding before the eye of God. Naked we all stand in front of him. Known and seen up into the deepest cell or fiber of body and mind.  Better to get right right away. God will be gracious and forgive. And give a new life out of the shadows. As fearsome as that may sound, it is worth the going. Much more, God is worth the going. Even if it kills. Especially when it kills. 

Gen. 3:8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

The one person, blending in perfectly without any disturbance to our perception of things is often the one we favour and if that person makes us look good, we'll like him all the more. Until God calls us and in his light, in his presence things may take a shift to the unpleasant. Please, for the grace of God, have nothing to hide to him and be ready to enjoy the evening stroll in heavenly gardens.

The bird tries to blend into his surroundings. Many animals do by mimicking the world they live in. We do by trying to be like everybody else. To be invisible in society. The most invisible man will be most successful.