Tuesday, January 8, 2013

THE WOODPECKER TEACHES US DILIGENCE


   Have you ever watched a woodpecker hammering his head against a tree? How can this bird continuously hammer away like this? A woodpecker might ram his head 8,000 to 12,000 times against a tree on any given day in order to find food to eat or to build a home for itself. Hello! I have a headache just thinking about what he does in search of food. My brain gets rattled just having to search through the pantry for something to eat.

   The woodpecker hangs onto the tree with his feet. He has two toes that point upward and two that point downward in the back. He also uses his tail to support himself onto the tree. He is able to hold on, in this manner, for long periods of time.

   The woodpecker will spend hours in search of bugs, seeds, nuts or fruit. It will go to great lengths in order to gather a meal. He constantly hammers away in search of an insect or some tree sap buried under the bark in the tree.

   What if we were as diligent about finding food for our soul as the woodpecker is about finding one little bug. We would be considered spiritual millionaires. Many people have the Word of God laying right before them daily and they never think about picking it up. It would be so easy to feed the soul and yet instead, we choose to fill our lives with unhealthy things.

   Let's start being like the woodpecker and going to great lengths to find the fruit of the spirit; which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.

   This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, dolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (Galatians 5:16-26)
                                                
   More information can be found on the following link about the woodpecker.
http://birding.about.com/od/birdprofiles/a/15-Fun-Facts-About-Woodpeckers.htm



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