Daily Archives: June 6, 2011

The Woodpecker

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A male Downy Woodpecker, in Poquott, Long Isla...

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I was sitting on the porch yesterday morning.  Listening to the pecking of a Woodpecker.  How marvelous that he can pound his face into wood time and time again, and still have a brain left.  I thought about him a while, then something dawned in my meager mind.  Everything created is a shadow of what is to come.  And nothing was ever created that didn’t have something to do with the story of Jesus.  So what about Jesus has to do with a Woodpecker??????

The bird pounds into the hard wood looking for a reward for his efforts, bugs.  The Lord of Life speaks to man and urges him to overcome sin, much like this bird pounds against the hard wood.  Man’s hard heart yields the same resistance, most of the time.  The reward of obedient faith is there, under the surface.  But to get to it, the Lord needs to destroy the surface.

By His Grace.

The Evloution of Response.

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When I first began to respond to anti-Christian blogs I would attack what was being presented.  I guess I saw their words as the enemy.  But two things have happened, through the course of dealing with such words.  The most important and transforming experience in these proceedings was the Holy Spirit of God speaking through me.  We are told the following:   11 “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” (from Luke 12)

Who are the synagogue rulers and authorities of satan’s push against Christ?  It happens to be anyone who will come against Jesus’ people in word or in deed.  So I watch what get’s typed in the responses I present.  They became far less antagonistic and far less full of me.  God does speak through His people.  You don’t feel it as a force pouring through your body.  He simply transforms your mind to understand the implications of what was presented.  So I start typing and just allow the mind to relax.  God is in control.

The second transforming experience holds an equal amount of power.  I’ve become to see these people as simply a mouth piece of the one who has stood against the Lord from the beginning.  They are not the enemy.  And their words are addressed by the Lord through me.  What is left to me is to recognize that I was once one of them.  I used to demean everything holy.  I was a trash heap of ruin in a corrupt body of flesh.  Running around just looking for a fight.

So when you deal with folk who seem to stand against you, try to remember who’s ultimately in charge.  They are going to die just like you’re gonna die.  The body wears out and accidents happen.  The major difference between the Christian and the man or woman without Jesus is the presence of the Holy Spirit.  He is the power of God’s Son set as a seal for those who God is in the process of redeeming.  In all things we rest knowing that we are His.

By His Grace.