Triplet Squirrel Story - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

I found this story online, and it told in such a simple way such a great truth. May our hearts find their home only in Yah'shua our Refuge, who leads us into all truth.
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Triplet Squirrel Story

by Sherry Chapin

My little ones have found orphaned triplets, three baby squirrels, which they have faithfully for many days nursed with a bottle in the middle of the night. Chip and Dale and Chess have had a very safe and comfortable nest with plenty of food and water and lots of love. They have been very protected and have become tame, jumping into our laps and running up our clothes. But recently they have been running throughout the house like "wild teens", just longing for FREEDOM. It was time to put them outside in a big cage! :)...But in the process of doing so, little Chess got loose and ran up a tree. Isn't that just like a teen who is longing to exert his independence and see the world? Little Chess was not aware of the DANGERS that awaited her.

She didn't know how to find food and water in the wild; she didn't know about all the animals who longed to destroy her. Many of our children, also, have been warned about the devil, the "roaring lion" who seeks to devour, but they seem to be unaware that he is a real DANGER.

So...little Chess' heart was beating wildly, and even with all the pleadings, she just roamed the branches but would not come down. My little girl stood beneath the tree, sobbing her heart out, and when the little squirrel fell and disappeared into the bushes, her heart was broken. We searched, but we could not find her...

Where is true happiness? Where is true freedom? Safe in the arms of Yah'shua!!!!

We pray our children will remember:

John 8:31

If ye CONTINUE in my word, ...ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you FREE.

And the truth is that when we make The Most High our Home, our "habitation", as Psalm 91:9 says, we shall indeed be FREE!

Psalm 91:1

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Spurgeon says, "When through the blood of Yah'shua [Jesus] a soul is brought into sweet fellowship with Yahweh[God], it's real dangers are over...Noah was secure the moment he entered the ark, and so are we so soon as we are in Messiah Yah'shua [Christ]...

O Yah'shua, Saviour of the lost
Our ARK and hiding place.
By storms of sin and sorrow toss'd,
We seek thy sheltering grace.

Forgive our WANDERING and our sin
We wish no more to ROAM.
Open the ark and take us in,
Our soul's ETERNAL HOME."
(emphasis mine)

Let us pray for those we love who seem to be running from Yah'shua, that they will soon be able to really pray this prayer and "COME HOME" to Him, just as little Chess did in the afternoon when she slipped back into the house, realizing finally that the the real place of happiness is where there is food and water! May all of us abandon forever our loves, even legitimate earthly joys, if they have our hearts, and may we find our soul's true happiness in Yahweh and His word, for Yah'shua alone is our "bread from heaven" and our "spring of living water"!

( I have replaced God with Yahweh and Jesus with Yah'shua)

Comment by Avah on July 16, 2008 at 6:46am: Yes He is the Good Shepherd and He does pursue us, praise His name! I certainly would have been lost if He hadn't, because I, in my anger wanted nothing to do with Him, but, I finally risked, well hey it sure seemed like at a risk at the time, and I trusted Him, and wow oh wow oh wow!!! My life has never been the same since.

But sadly it is also true, that like that little squirrel abandoned what was sure and proven, we often times abandon Yahweh for what seems like a better deal, be that trusting our own judgement over His, or, as some, and some we have loved dearly have done,completely abandon Him altogether.

But those who know His voice will return, that is always our prayer and hope. But sheesh, how much wiser to never leave Him to start with. :)

Comment by Lev/Christopher on July 16, 2008 at 1:02am: The most frightening part of my ministry is labouring with people for years and years who seem by their lives to be demonstrating that they are believers and yet when some adversity strikes their lives they are only too quick to abandon Yah'shua at the drop of a hat as though He never existed. It's at such times you discover what is in the core of people's hearts - and that Yah'shua was just a layer on top of something that was not YHWH. So often YHWH send adversity to strip such coats off so that we can deal with our real core before it's too late and we must stand before the Eternal Judge. My prayer is that He will continue searching out these souls so that they may meet Yah'shua for real and not just as a plug-in to an unreal religious lifestyle.

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