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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.