Stork

The stork was unclean to eat, but Scripture singles it out elsewhere for something more admirable than its meat. Its unfailing sense of migratory timing — arriving and departing on schedule, year after year, without being taught — became its own kind of testimony.

• “And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.”

  Leviticus 11:19

Faithful, instinctive obedience to God’s appointed order — ‘the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times… but my people know not the judgment of the LORD’ (Jeremiah 8:7).

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