...leaf

A man that was "big game" hunting in an unfamiliar land, was crouched low, waiting for his prized  moment to shoot. He heard a 'rustling' behind him. He looked, but saw nothing so he resumed his  position, waiting. He heard it again. As he looked in another angle, he noticed the commotion was  coming from a tree very near him. He spied a large snake slowly making its way to a nest, high up   in a tree. The mama bird was frantically fluttering her wings while chirping, trying to 'scare' the snake away. Not working, and seeing it was too close to her, she left her nest. 

The hunter sat there, watching, knowing the sure outcome of these little birds, when he noticed  the mama bird making a quick dash back to her nest. She was holding a red leaf in her beak, she   dropped it atop her nest, and flew away to a nearby branch, watching. The hunter thought on this  action that this little creature took, so puzzled by it, he thought, surely the bird was maybe trying to "hide" her chicks. He thought in his mind, not a chance!  That snake has "zeroed -in" on his prey.  Then the hunter witnessed something very perplexing.....strange.  Just as the snake came up to the tip of the nest, he turned and began his journey back down the limb and then off the tree. 

The hunter could not figure this out at all until he came to one of the natives later that night. The native asked him if he had any "luck" today, during his hunt. The hunter replied, "I didn't, but a little bird did"...as he began to relay to the native about what he saw, the native told him that it was a poisonous leaf that she dropped in the nest. Highly poisonous to the snake, they "just know" NOT to TOUCH it!!!!!

The Bible says that God sees the ’sparrows’. If He provided a certain leaf  that is offensive to this snake, thus by it her young were not devoured. I ask you……..HOW MUCH MORE pleading the  BLOOD of JESUS over our kids, to keep them from being devoured by our Enemy? The BLOOD of  JESUS is an OFFENSE to him! 

-john & ramona rohrer