Someone wrote, “Like a camouflaged soldier, the big bird stood un-moving and nearly unseen in the bare oak. I took a step closer, and its head rotated slightly. I found myself looking into a pair of penetrating dark eyes.” Owls are fascinating creatures. Their fixed stare, spine chilling hoots and shrieks tend to intimidate. The owl’s head is on such flexible bearings that it can rotate at least 180 degrees. Thus an owl’s body can be facing in one direction, and its head in another. John Bunyan in Pilgrim’s Progress, mentions a man called Mr. Facing Both Ways. He tries to sit on the fence. But nobody can do this continuously. We must make a choice. Jesus reminded us that “No man can serve two masters…” And Josuha in the Old Testament urged, “Choose yourselves whom you will serve.” Then he added, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Are you trying to sit on the fence in regards to your relationship to God?

Pastor Alex Rockwell