“O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!” Is37.14
Evidently the duck has provided us many useful idioms. Consider the illustrious ways we have used this simple bird in our vocabulary; “the lame duck,” “get your ducks in a row,” “a sitting duck,” “a dead duck,” “duck soup,” “like a duck to water,” and, my personal favorite would have to be, “like water off a duck's back.”
The peace of Christ has power to render all oppression just that. Criticisms and worries without, depression and frets within, are like water off a duck's back when we stay our minds on God who is more than willing but also able to keep our hearts in perfect peace. We should not make ourselves a sitting duck, or lay there like a lame duck, least our enemies make us a dead duck. No, we should get our ducks in a row and like a duck to water fix our minds on God who will make duck soup of every attack against us and render all oppression like water off a ducks back.
The apostle Paul put it this way,, “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
Just me trying to be honest with God.
