
It’s nice to have a bodyguard, isn’t it?
Someone who watches over you, keeps tabs on what’s happening to you, and is ready to step in if it looks like you’re headed for trouble.
Even flocks of geese have a bodyguard of sorts. The individual bird which fills this role is called a sentinel.
While the other geese are feeding, individual geese will take turns acting as protectors for the rest of the gaggle. These sentinels will stand guard, necks erect, alert to any threat from predators. They have keen eyesight and hearing, and will honk loudly to warn the others if they sense any danger.
Geese make such effective guards that we humans have often taken advantage of their services. We’ve employed geese at farms and warehouses as living alarm systems, and have even used them to guard U.S. Air Defense Command installations in Germany!
We could all use a sentinel like that in our lives, couldn’t we?
Did you know that if you’re a believer, you already have a “bodyguard”?
It’s God Himself.
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