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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

GOD DOESNT LEAVE

LOOSE ENDS

B Y PETER S T OFFBERG Family Church Ladies’ Retreat
Created for Purpose
y big sister and I once amused ourselves
thoroughly at the expense of a farmyard
Mrooster. We’d seldom heard such a loud and
silly noise and were properly amused at the way our
mimicry spurred him into more and more passionate
crowing. That was until he lost patience and became OPTION 1 | R 1000
agitated. A charging rooster is terrifying when you’re 2 People sharing
just a few years old and about the same number of ensuite bathroom (shower)
bricks high. The experience is deeply imprinted in my bedding is supplied
mind, and it may be why I’ve shown little or no further
interest in these birds until now. OPTION 2 | R 1000
3 - 6 People sharing
ensuite family room
Apparently some scientists sat down to question why 3 bunk beds (shower)
the extraordinarily loud crow of a rooster doesn’t (only 4 rooms available)
cause deafness to the birds. The crowing of a rooster bedding is supplied
can exceed 140 decibels. It’s as loud as a small
calibre gunshot or a jet engine, and more than OPTION 3 | R920
enough to cause permanent hearing loss. Now I’m 6 People sharing
not sure if I’m more intrigued by the reasoning and communal bathrooms (shower),
motivation of these scientists, or the exquisite design DATE 3 bunk beds
of the rooster, but let’s focus on the rooster. 2pm Fri 13 Sept please bring your own bedding
to
Its ears are perfectly designed to prevent hearing VENUE BOOKINGS
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tissue covering and protecting half the surface of
their eardrums. If our ears had these features, we’d College Road, Ephesians 2:10
never need hearing aids. The design is remarkable, Nooitgedacht “For we are God’s handiwork,
but there’s one more feature which is even more Muldersdrift created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
impressive. When roosters throw their heads back which God prepared in advanced
for us to do.”
and open their beaks to crow, they automatically
constrict their ear passages. These otherwise ordinary
birds actually block their ears when they crow. entrenched in our thinking and cause us to doubt
God’s faithfulness.
It’s wonderful to realise that God didn’t just design
the rooster with an exceptionally loud call, useful for If you’re struggling right now and wondering if God
waking up entire villages, but that He took the care has forgotten you, then remember this. God isn’t
to protect their hearing too. Most of us are prone like us, He always keeps His word and He finishes
to starting things that we never finish, and all of us what He starts. He became flesh in the person of
have been disappointed by someone else who didn’t Jesus and He died to take the consequences of
finish what they promised to do. Like a traumatic our mistakes and rebellion. Then He rose from the
rooster charge, these disappointments can become
dead to assure us that He has authority over life and
death, and will return to take us to be with Him for
eternity. Be encouraged today. He is with you through
your struggles and never leaves a loose end, not in
designing roosters, and definitely not in the lives of
those who trust Him.

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