What Makes You Crow? | AllWorship.com

When you see a rooster, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Crowing, for most, and especially at the top of the morning. Roosters love to crow at the start of a new day.

So, let me ask you: What do you crow about in your life? What is new and exciting? That is what you should be crowing about, growing in, and working through.

Not everyone feels like crowing, however. Some things in life are not “crowing material”. I wonder that somewhere in the process between ‘he who began a good work’ and ‘carry it on to completion’, I sometimes lose heart. You too?

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Php 1:6b NIV)

If we are candid, most of us can even say that we sometimes find it difficult to recognize what God has begun in us, much less what He is doing. Those times are especially not crowing days. On those days, I find myself feeling like (metaphorically) doing something else roosters do: Scratching around in the dirt.

Roosters scratch to look for bugs to eat. We look for … what? How about hope? Maybe encouragement? Acceptance? A reason to live? Or perhaps we search for a light at the end of the dark emotional tunnel in which we find ourselves–that isn’t another train coming toward us.

The truth is that God has begun something in each of us. Though hard to see, it is there. I say this confidently because it is His nature to do so. We strain to see it at times. There are times when it is so obscured by the difficulties we face, we are unable to see it at all. But even then, it is there like sunshine above the clouds waiting for a breakthrough to shine into our day.

This is also true: God has already seen what we will do and how we will complete what He has begun in us. “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.” (Isa 46:10 NIV)

If you are in the process of struggling to even see it, set your intention to trust Him. God wants your purpose to be completed even more than you want it to be so. Believe that He believes it when you cannot believe it for yourself.

How then can you get to the completed place God already sees? There is only one way I know: Stay in the process until He completes it. If you get out, stop, panic and run, or give up, you will not see it. Let God complete it in you, and perhaps He will “crow” in jubilation and celebrate with you.

Some may think it is inappropriate to say something like this about God. Before you get too religious or pious, I suggest you take it to Him and ask Him about it. God has a far greater sense of humor and expression of emotions than we can imagine. His are far beyond ours because we are the copy; He is the original. What we feel, He feels more. I can picture Him doing this with us because it is joyful–and God enjoys our joy.

What makes me crow? Being what God has for me to be does it. I welcome it. I look for it. I want it. I expect it. And when it comes, I WILL crow. (And it makes me smile to imagine God crowing with me.)

What about you? What will you crow about?