Animals that obeyed God - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
Psalm 50:10–11

Animals that obeyed God
Sven is sitting at the table doing his homework. He can’t concentrate because a fly keeps buzzing around his head. Annoyed, he shoos it away and tries to chase it out the window. But the fly doesn’t obey him ...

It is different with God, the Creator. All animals obey him. The Bible tells us how they have to carry out what He tells them to do, sometimes even against their natural instinct.

o In 1 Kings 17, we read how ravens are commissioned by God to bring bread and meat to the prophet Elijah twice a day. Although these birds like meat, they carry this food without eating it themselves.
o 1 Samuel 6, God sees to it that two lactating cows do not follow their maternal instinct, but turn their backs on their calves and pull the cart with the Ark of the Covenant out of enemy territory into Israelite territory.
o Daniel is thrown into the pit with the lions because of his faithfulness to God, the Almighty closes the jaws of these predators so that the God-fearing man of faith remains alive (Daniel 6).

These examples show how the Lord has worked in power and grace in favour of His own. Therefore, in situations that overwhelm us, let us hold fast to the fact that nothing gets out of hand for our God. He has ways and means to help us, although He rarely intervenes through a supernatural miracle.

Today’s reading: Ezekiel 16:1-34 · Psalms 119:97-112