“Peace And The Robber”
When I was young boy, in our back yard there was a blue martin house. We loved to watch them sail around catching bugs. They were at perfect peace doing exactly as God designed them. Now their catching thousands of mosquitoes a day meant that that we could play outside peacefully and have fun. Everything was great until the cow birds, as we called them, discovered the martin house. They are actually starlings. Well they are of a strange breed, they rob the martin eggs, move in and lay their own. The martins try to fight the cow birds as more and more of them come. Soon the beautiful blue martins leave and you guested it, the mosquitoes return. Our back yard was no longer a fun, peaceful place to play. We knew the cow bird as a nest robber.
Well, Jesus, had a lot to say about peace and its’ condition. John. 14:27 says, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
I was once reminded of something very important that is good to remember. In the American language and others as well, we might use a phrase to describe a red cherry as “red cherry”, with the adjective “red” first and the noun “cherry” second, but in Hebrew it would be called a “cherry red”. The noun being first and the adjective second. What the object is, comes first and its’ description is second.
Let’s see if we can relate to something that I had begun to do. I had started to look at people’s actions first rather than what they are. God said that man was created in his own image, and that being a noun. Mans’ actions then being an adjective. God looks at His created person as perfect first, him being a noun, He looks at the learning, imperfect person, secondly as the adjective, his condition second. Sometimes we can see a persons’ adjective, all his faults, and overlook his noun. Every person is first Gods’ created noun, and secondly his adjective condition. We are saved from our adjective condition to realize our noun, who we are. The more I looked at peoples’ condition, the more critical I would get. The scripture says correctly, “The anger of man does not work the salvation of God”. I, in a way, had become like the cow bird to those I loved and was trying to help. I was unknowingly robbing God’s noun of his peace.
God chooses the adjective, just as he is and makes him to realize his noun.
