I loved to catch pigeons when I was a young lad, although I never really caught one. I would hide and watch as a bird landed, then as quietly as I could, inch my way closer and closer to it. Each time I got close, the bird moved forward just to maintain the distance between us, and whenever I got too close for its comfort or just close enough for me to go for the grab, it would flap its wings and fly off, ending the game.
Just as a bird operates on land and in the air, we also live in two worlds – the physical and spirit worlds. There’s so much wrong with the world’s system: economic crises, political chaos, destruction, disease, death, famine, war…but the Christian life shouldn’t be subject to any of these. God’s Word has taken us out of all that and has brought us into a good place in Christ Jesus. We’re not governed by the principles of this physical world. The Lord Jesus made this clear in John 17:16 where He said, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” Our lives are hinged on higher and better laws that exist in the Kingdom of God, and these higher laws of the Kingdom are in the Word of God.
Whenever it seems like the problems of this world are gaining on you and want to overwhelm and frustrate you, simply switch to the higher laws in the Word of God! Those pigeons I chased as a kid always switched to the law of lift, a law higher than gravity, which I was subject to. They simply flew away to a convenient place where they couldn’t be disturbed by anything I was doing down on the ground. You can do the same today. Don’t wait until the devil is all over you, spread your wings in the spirit and fly on the higher laws of the Word of God! Move on to that higher place where the evil in the world can’t touch you and the adversary can only watch you from the ground in total frustration.
