Rescued Meaning In Telugu
Karoline
Whether it is a struggling bald eagle whose water-logged feathers prevent it from lifting off from a river or an osprey left dazed after flying into a plate-glass window, raptors are great forces of nature, capable of striking with formidable talons and beaks.
A natural lesson
In a new program, Maryland Natural Resources Police officers are being taught to perform raptor triage, providing a bridge to get birds in trouble out of danger and into the care of a regional network of trained volunteers and rehabilitation specialists.
The curriculum is built on the 30-year foundation provided by the popular Maryland Park Service Scales & Tales program, which introduces the public to birds and reptiles that have been rescued but are unable to live in the wild. Scales & Tales education programs are set up at several state parks, including Cunningham Falls, Rocky Gap and Tuckahoe.
The collaboration is a natural extension of the relationship between the parks and the officers who patrol them. Many calls about injured birds come on nights and weekends, meaning officers are often the first on the scene, says Sarah Milbourne, the manager of Rocky Gap State Park, who crafted the curriculum.
Training
Officers learn how to approach an injured raptor, how to use the terrain and other people to close off escape routes, how to assess an injury, and how to place a wounded animal in a carrying box.
Just days after completing training last summer, Officer First Class Amelia Nelson was on patrol on the South River in Anne Arundel County when she received a call about an injured osprey on the second floor of a home on Aberdeen Creek.
Another save
Weeks later in Western Maryland, Officers First Class Marty Kaetzel and Cory Garver got that same feeling of accomplishment when they helped Milbourne corral a bald eagle that had been struck by a truck on I-68. With the officers looking on, that eagle was rehabilitated and released after just a few short weeks.
One verse in this passage was the text for the sermon I preachedin 1990 to mark my tenth anniversary at the church. I called itthen one of my favorite testimonies to the faithfulness of God. Itstill is, and the verse is 2 Timothy 4:17. "But the Lord stood withme and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation mightbe fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and Iwas rescued out of the lion's mouth."
I dealt with the context then in some detail. But today is theclose of missions week and I am not going to do that again. InsteadI am going to go straight from the plain meaning of the words ofthis verse to missions application with the hope that God might usePaul's testimony and the testimony of other missionaries to stiryou up to a more radical venture on the faithfulness of God infinishing the Great Commission for the glory of his name and thegood of the nations.
But before I make that application let's do this: not everybodycomes to worship this morning with a clear and animating sense ofGod's passion for the glory of Christ among the peoples of theworld. Most of us are pretty parochial and ethnocentric and narrowand even sometimes self-centered and racist in our way of life. Wesimply hardly ever even think about the global, multi-national,multi-ethnic, multi-linquistic cause of God, and what God's zealand purposes are for Guinea, West Africa and Indonesia and Tanzaniaand Thailand and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Turkey andCzechoslovakia and China and Siberia and Japan and Cameroon andMyanmar and the Somali or Winnebago or Dakota or Chippewa ofMinnesota.
Matthew 28:18-20, "All authority has been given to Me in heavenand on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the HolySpirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo,I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Romans 15:20-21, "I aspired to preach the gospel, not whereChrist was already named, so that I would not build on anotherman's foundation; but as it is written, 'they who had no news ofhim shall see, and they who have not heard shall understand.'"
Revelation 5:9-10, "And they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthyare You to take the book and to break its seals; for You wereslain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribeand tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be akingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon theearth."
You might say, "But isn't the gospel about finding forgivenessof my sins and getting the hope of eternal life, and being filledwith the Spirit of holiness and being changed into the image ofJesus so that I am a better mom or dad or son or daughter or friendor employer or citizen?" And the answer is, Yes. But if that is allyou dwell on in your walk with God, you miss the big picture. Youmiss the bigger point of it all. You're like a bat boy at YankeeStadium who thinks the great point of the World Series is to handthe players their bat.
And to that end I give you 2 Timothy 4:17 as a greatencouragement, and great incentive, a great hope for what it willbe like to venture something new and radical on Jesus. "The Lordstood with me and strengthened me, so that through me theproclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentilesmight hear; and I was rescued out of the lion's mouth."
The Lord stood with me; the Lord gave me strength, with thatstrength the gospel was preached; and the aim was the gentiles, allthe nations. That was Paul's experience of Christ's faithfulnessand nearness and help. And it has been the case with thousands ofmissionaries in tens of thousands of crises. And it will be yourexperiences when you follow Jesus where he leads.
A hundred years ago John Paton, from Scotland, took the gospelto the New Hebrides in the South Pacific, today's Vanuatu. Withinmonths his wife and son died. But Paton spent the rest of his life,until he was an old man, planting the church on the Islands. Paul'sexperience in 2 Timothy 4:17 was his as well. He quoted Jesus'words, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age," thensaid, "Precious promise! How often I adore Jesus for it, andrejoice in it! Blessed be his name" (John G. Paton: Missionaryto the New Hebredes, An Autobiography Edited by HisBrother, p. 154).
Yet I sat there among the branches, as safe in the arms ofJesus. Never, in all my sorrows, did my Lord draw nearer to me, andspeak more soothingly in my soul . . . as I told all my heart toJesus. . . . I will not grudge to spend many nights alone in such atree, to feel again my Savior's spiritual presence, to enjoy Hisconsoling fellowship (Autobiography p. 200).
Alexander Duff, who was born in Scotland in 1806 and went toIndia when he was 24 with two shipwrecks on the way, and spentalmost 40 years there for Christ and his kingdom, wrote to hisdaughter later in life,
In one short evening the labours of years are consumed. Howunsearchable are the ways of God! I had lately brought some thingsto the utmost of perfection of which they seemed capable, andcontemplated the missionary establishment with perhaps too muchself-congratulation. The Lord has laid me low, that I may look moresimply to him (Mary Drewry, William Carey: A Biography, p.154).
Carey knew, and Carey learned painfully to know better, that themission of Christ goes forward by looking more simply to him. "Iwill be with you, I will help you." In all his losses, the Lordstood with him. He never forsook him. Never could he have enduredas he did without him.
His watchword, was "Expect great things from God, attempt greatthings for God." In that order! First trust him. Trust his promise.He will stand with you. He will give you strength. Then . . . THEN. . . "attempt great things for God." You will open your mouth. Thenations will hear and be glad.
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