Birds are beautiful creatures, attractive in both form and function. If you have taken some time to watch them fly, it will be moments that you will remember. I can't look at them without wondering what it would be like to be able to soar in the clouds, so high above the ground. But this picture brings out a fact that we don't normally think about; flying in bad weather. Its easy to do something when the weather is nice, but what about when its less-than-nice? Birds have to do what they really have to do, regardless of the weather. People are like that too; especially Christians. We must be what we must be, in spite of whatever opposition we may face. There have always been those who reject The Christ of God and try to make him something less than God-in-the-flesh. The apostle John talks about just such a situation in his first general letter.
1 John 2:18-23 WEB (R)
(18) Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
(19) They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
(20) You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
(21) I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
(22) Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
(23) Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
Today, the term Antichrist is overused an misapplied by every sensational minister who wants to draw attention to the end times. One thing is certain; that is Jesus is God and the world is as it never has been before. Will we see the return of Christ? Could be? I really don't know and I don't WANT TO KNOW! But, we must be faithful to him who has called us in all things, because just as birds fly in all types of weather, so we must be who we are regardless of the opposition. So, watch the birds fly and think about the future, but always remember to watch where they are flying because you don't want an unexpected surprise to make a mess on you.