Dr. John Stott, in his book “The Birds Our Teachers”, tells of a Manx Shearwater, a bird of the open ocean, which was taken from Stockholm and released at Boston’s Logan Airport. Twelve days later the same bird was home, a distance of 3,000 miles. It had travelled 250 mile a day. Dr. Stott called that “homing instinct.” What a wonderful God we have, to have instilled such an instinct in birds. But did you know that He has also given humans a “homing instinct”? When we are estranged from Him, we feel restless and try in vain to satisfy and fill our lives with other things. It was the wise Augustine who hundreds of years ago wrote, “our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God.” And the great man added, “When we come to rest in Him, He comes to rest in us.” No wonder Paul the Apostle wrote, “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Are you at peace?

Pastor Alex Rockwell