Story Time

The Mother Duck and her Ducklings

One day a man was travelling down a highway. A two-lane highway. In the distance he saw something irregular was going on. People seemed to be going around something. Shortly, he got to that spot. It was an amazing sight.  A mother duck with her little ones standing on the dotted line. Right in the middle of the highway. Mother duck was keeping her little ones near her.  Quick, instant death was swiftly passing on either side of her. 

The traveling man did what the others before him had done before. With a slight raise of his foot on the gas peddle, he slowed down a bit and kept on driving. A look in the rearview mirror told the next part of the story. Mother duck had sensed danger was passed. In duck language, she told her little ones to follow.  With deliberate movements she waddled across the road. Her little ones kept right by her side and together they safely made it to the other side.

Ducklings have this God-given instinct that tells them the only way to safety is for them to obey Mother Duck. The setting the traveler saw, happens frequently in nature. The ducklings know they need to obey mother and to obey immediately. No turning left or right. Only do as mother says and do it immediately. Anything else is death. Immediate death. 

Nature has many lessons for us. Let’s think about this Mother Duck and her ducklings for a bit. God is infinitely bigger and mightier than Mother Duck. Like Mother Duck, God has our good in mind. And wants to save us. Our safety is of great importance to Him. Just like the ducklings, we are too small to safely make it to the side of the road on our own. If we don’t listen, death awaits us.

Do we really know any better than the ducklings?