Food For Thought

Last night I had a dream. I will give you the reader's digest version. I had a dream that I was in some water. There was a pier, me in the middle, and my family was on a little inflatable boat on the other side of me. I saw an alligator, and I told my family, help me, there is an alligator. I can't swim(my dad threw me in the water when little, and I got scared and never learned) I somehow made it to the pier. When I turned around to look at my family, I only saw the children, and they were looking down at the water. My beloved had jumped into the water to help me, and never resurfaced. At that point I forced myself to wake up. the Lord bought to my mind the verse, 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
This morning as I was driving to the supermarket I was meditating on that verse when I happen to come upon two little ducklings in the middle of the street. The mother duck was on the sidewalk with the rest of her ducklings. She looked at the two in the middle of the street picking at something, and she put her head in the grass and started to forage. That was it, she didn't call them, she didn't help them, nothing. The Lord impressed me that I need to make sure I am not like that mother duck foraging on the side of the street, while my little ducklings are in the middle of the street unprotected. I need to protect them from the roaring lion looking to devour them. I need to protect them in every sense; physcially, emotionally, spiritually, etc. These are His children. He paid for them with His blood. They are on loan to me to raise for Him. I don't know about you, but when someone lends me something, I am sure to take extra good care of it. I need to make sure that at the end time I hear the words, ...Well done, good and faithful servant...Matthew 25:23