It is said that the mosquito is Minnesota’s State bird. Fortunately they are not due to emerge from the cold for few months yet.
A few nights ago I was wakened with a severe cramp in the adductor muscle group of my left leg.
I lept out of bed sensing it was Father’s iron grip…….getting my attention. I glanced at the clock. It said 2.21, so I knew I should get my bible out and pursue the reason for this rude awakening.
Sure enough I was lead to a book, the second chapter and twenty first verse. The message was perfect for the situation I had been holding before the Lord. It was confirming a disciplinary step I sensed I should take. In Hebrews we read “No discipline seems pleasant but painful at the time” for the recipient yes…. but also for the one called to implement it!
A few nights later I was up again during the night. I had turned to the same verse and was checking with Father if he really wanted me to follow through on this, when I noticed a mosquito hovering nearby. “It’s far too early for mosquitos!” I thought, and then watched in disbelief as it landed…..on my left adductor muscle group – and then sunk it’s proboscis into me!
I knew it was Father who had sent the little lady along (it is the females that bite) because I needed this strong and painful double witness on my left adductor group to embolden me to obey!
Yes, “No discipline (training) seems pleasant t the time…… Later on, however, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” (Heb.12:11) As I obeyed, and ‘truthed it in love’, the fruit was indeed good!
And now I know why God created mosquito’s………they are His messengers……sent to serve!
Psalm 119:91 says “ALL things (even those pesky mosquitos) serve you.” which is why we can, as it says in 1 Thess.5:20, “Give thanks in ALL circumstances.” (even when called upon to donate blood to an unworthy cause : – ))