Before Pearl pondered her “What if?” question, she asked God’s Spirit to guide her thinking and her feeling to understand what she needed to know and to do so that she would be the kind of chicken The Great Gardener and His Son wanted her to be. This certainly seemed best whether someone is a chicken or a person.

Pearl decided that He would never ask a chicken to do anything that he hadn’t already made them able to do. This is partly why we have used a human hand in this chapter’s illustration—Pearl wanted both to think thoughts and to do the actions that would please God.

In The Ancient Words, He had already given chickens all they needed to follow his commandment. They needed to “be fruitful and multiply.” Back in the beginning, there weren’t any fences or farms. There were simply hens and roosters making families and more families, just as they had been commanded and blessed to do.

“And The Great Gardener Created huge whales and every living creature that moves and which the waters brought forth in abundance. Each living creature brought forth in abundance after their own kind. And The Great Gardener blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the Kingdom of the Waters, the Kingdom of the Air, and the Kingdom of the Earth.” (Genesis 1: 21-22)

It did worry Pearl that we did not have any roosters in our backyard garden to do their part of these commandments. But then, she realized that was probably true in some way for people to whom The Ancient Words were given. Maybe some people just couldn’t do the being fruitful and multiplying when it came to filling the earth with those of the own kind.

And then like a flash, Pearl realized they could fill the earth with Christ-believers and Christ-followers like themselves! That was something that He had already made them able to do!

Pearl’s Chicken Wisdom for Today: God will never ask you to do something without making you able to do it first. He will empower you for success!