June 22, 2006
Road Kill
I recently took an overnight business trip with my husband. The next morning as we were getting ready to leave the motel we observed a small resourceful bird picking the dead bugs off the grill of our car. Jesus said, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” (Matt 6: 25-27, NIV) Feasting on an abundance of road kill delicacies, the bird’s only concern seemed to be watching his smorgasbord drive away.
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Gail;
----When I read your piece yesterday, I tipped my head a bit and wondered. There was something peaceful about the Lord bringing food to the birds in your radiator grille, but there was something disturbing about it, also. My mind immediately went to how aggressive brothers in positions of dominance pick apart their weaker siblings in the Lord, and how I am soon to enter a room full of hungry elders like a bug on a grille. But that was not it. It was more subtle, more innocent, more sad.
----No sooner had I clicked on your blogspot this morning than it struck me. Yes! That's it! An old thought - an old, old thought - from my teen years that has been the staple of my perception of the reality that we live in and call temporal life. Those bugs are dead! The food that God gives to the birds, the food that He gives to us once lived, and is now dead. This world is so corrupt, it is so filled with the twist of Satan that we can not even sustain physical life without killing. Neither can the creatures that God created. In fact, our very own spiritual lives have come from death. I often think about Jesus when I think about rib-eye.
----And do we think we are special in our own accomplished religious thoughts, feelings, and actions? The religious thoughts, feelings, and actions that the Lord looks for us to come to Him through, and approach one another upon, are those from humility and submission, not from accomplishment and position. We must admit that it takes blood between our teeth to maintain our bodily functions: something must die for our physical nourishment, and something died for our spiritual life as well. And how much other damage do we cause when we step accross Scriptural bounds to expect a sibling in the Lord to behave approprietly to the approval of our own definitions, while blood is between our teeth?
----It is appropriate to call a brother on his Scripturally defined error when it is done for purposes rooted in the thoughtfulness of love. But never let our brother's spiritual blood stain our teeth for our own spiritual nourishment.
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