Well, this is a change of pace! I usually write later in the day but the work of Your hands, Father, has got my mind a-whirling and I must get it down before it slips away!
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A couple of years ago I made an amazing discovery – pigs do fly! Well, they’re not actually pigs but they sure eat like them! We have a very healthy population of American goldfinches in our area. In the winter the males are a bit more drab, but as spring approaches they turn a bright yellow. I used to feed them Nyjer (thistle) seed, but one year I ran out, and ever since then they will only eat black oil sunflower seed. They won’t even touch the Nyjer feeder. But boy, they can put away the sunflower seed!
I got a two-pound feeder for my birthday, and it’s easily half-eaten in a couple of days. My schedule was too full yesterday to fill it up when it was half empty, and when I looked out this morning, it was totally – not just almost – totally empty! I tell you those piggies fly in and out all day long!
Who can blame them? They have access to all the food they can ingest and all they have to do is to fly up, perch in front of the opening, and go at it!
We can have all we could ever want of God, as well, but many won’t have anything to do with Him. Others just nibble a little here and there – never enough to satisfy our innate hunger and thirst for such things.
Here are a couple of appetizers from God’s word.
“Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [those who actively seek right standing with God], for they will be [completely] satisfied. Matthew 5:6 AMP
…Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. John 6:35 NIV
Take delight in the Lord,
….and he will give you your heart’s desires.
Commit everything you do to the Lord.
….Trust him, and he will help you. Psalm 37:4-5 NLT
God will give us all we could ever ask of Him. All we have to do is to go and sit before Him and go at it! He welcomes us with open arms! As the old hymn goes, “He will fill your heart today to overflowing”!
Oh, to be a finch in the Kingdom of God!
Mar 9th, 2023, Thurs, 9:36 pm
