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Let's Proclaim the Name of our Savior
The Reader’s Digest Book of North American Birds reports that in 1848 and 1855, vast swarms of grasshoppers plagued the Salt Lake Valley of Utah. With their crops destroyed by the grasshoppers, Utah’s settlers would have likely starved. But an unlikely hero came to rescue. Spying the tasty buffet of crop-devouring insects, flocks of California gulls swooped in, ate the grasshoppers, and eliminated the threat. Accordingly, the people of Utah have honored the California Gull as their state bird.
Utah adopted the California gull as their state bird because of the good things those birds did. As Christians, we’ve been adopted as children of God and given an inheritance of eternal life. But we weren’t adopted because of any good thing we did. We’re God’s children simply because of his love, mercy, and grace.
Paul says it this way. “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:5-7)
The people of Utah want others to know that gulls saved them. Let’s make sure others know that Jesus saved us. Through the words we speak and the lives we live, let’s proudly proclaim our Lord.
-Paul
