FREE AS A BIRD
William Wordsworth in a piece entitled “Prelude” tells how wonderful it was to escape the city where he had been pent up so long. Now he says, “I am free. Free as a bird to settle where I will. Free as a bird? As a bird?” One theologian writes, the naturalist knows that the supposedly free bird actually lives its entire life in a cage made of fears, hunger, instincts. It is limited by weather conditions, varying air pressure, the local food supply, predatory beasts and that strangest of all bonds, the irresistible compulsion to stay within the small plot of land and air assigned it. The freed bird is, along with every other created thing, held in constant check by a net of necessity. Only God is free. Exerpted from a Charles Swindoll sermon in August of 1987
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