Where did you say that bird went?
My family loves to tell the story of when my oldest brother was just a little boy and did something bad. My mother and father had a stern talking to him and disciplined him for those actions. He couldn’t believe that my mother and father had known what he did. He knew he had snuck around and was very stealth about the whole thing, “how in the world did you guys know?” he ask. “A little bird told us” my mother told him. My brother left the room and returned with his slingshot and demanded to know where the bird was.
Of course the little bird did not tell my parents, but my brother could not understand how they knew what he had done.
This is the reality of life, you can be sure what ever, where ever, or however you have done something it will be realized by someone.
I can remember when my oldest son had been very quiet upstairs for quite a while. Concerned, I went upstairs to investigate what my son was doing. He met me coming down the hall with his hands behind his back and mascara spread all over his face. “I wasn’t in your makeup!” Was out of his mouth before I could ask him what he was doing. The Bible says: be sure your sins will find you out, and I’m sure any child who has tried to sneak around or do something behind their parents back knows this firsthand from when they got caught.
So it makes sense that if you are always going to be caught, that we would stop doing things wrong. But it is in man’s nature to try to beat the system. The Bible says: The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
Whether it is a little bird tells on you, or you confess your sins by yourself, they will be found out and a price for those insurrections will be extracted. Are you ready to pay that price?
As parents we need to teach our children to be responsible for their actions. If they’ve done something wrong the best thing to do is to confess it to the parents right away, because the punishment will be easier if it isn’t hidden and found out later, compounding the error of their ways.
We as authors through our fantasies have often had animals speak in our stories. 2000 years ago, written in the pages of Bible history are many instances where animals talk. How ironic that people would listen to a talking animal. But God can use anyone or anything for his purposes.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Ecclesiastic 10:20
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Numbers 32:23
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Luke 12:2
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:24