Whales of the Sea

This is a new devotion.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, not about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?" Matthew 6: 24-34

The other day I saw on the news that there were a large number of killer whales who were trapped in this small opening in the ice off the coast of Alaska. They came into the area and the water froze around them. They had to jump up into the air through this small opening to get air. Whales are mammals so they need to breathe air by coming up. They showed whales leaping out of the water, four or five at a time. Can you imagine the fear those whales were feeling?

The people of the nearby town wanted ice breaking equipment send there to break the ice and free the whales. Alaska was sending the equipment and it was scheduled to arrive and start breaking up the ice. The news today reported that an unexpected warm current came along and warmed up the water enough to break up the ice and free the whales. The newscaster credited "Mother Nature" with saving those whales. I, however, know that God was the one who sent that unexpected warm current.

See, just like the birds of the air and the whales of the sea, God takes care of us. We feel the fear of being trapped. We don't see any way out. We keep trying to leap up and catch our breath. But we are trapped. We are hopeless. Time is running out. We even come up with a plan to get ourselves out and He steps in an sends us an unexpected solution.

It is hard not to be anxious. It is hard to trust. It is painful and scary. But if the whales of the sea are valued enough by God to set them free of an ice trap, then we can be assured that He loves us even more. How do we know? Because His Word says so.