Learning from the squirrels
Do you ever sit and watch squirrels run across the telephone wires? Or have you ever notice how they chirp at you if you stare too long? Or perhaps you've noticed that they seem to know when to prepare for a harsh winter?
A couple years ago, we had a long cold winter. It's uncommon for our particular area to get hit with snow that seems to last longer than a couple hours. But that year, it lasted two weeks. In the months prior, my mother began to notice that the squirrels in our area had grown thicker, fluffier coats, and they seemed to have been hoarding more nuts than previous years. We took noticed and watched curiously as these creatures began preparing for what they knew to be a hard long winter.
This leads me to my point, or better stated, observation. Why don't we prepare ourselves, such as the animals do? We're intelligent beings, we've been given the gifts of reason and critical thinking. Yet, we squander what we work for, and wallow in waste. We've become desensitized by popular culture to get everything that feels good in the moment. Instead, of preparing ourselves for the future. Don't get me wrong, indulgence isn't a bad thing, as long as it's in moderation. Almost anything can be good, as long as its moderated. It's when we abuse the luxuries we have, that become toxic to our very core. Even the squirrel knows when he can play and when he needs to prepare.
Proverbs 6:6–8
"Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest."
I also believe that our inward state, reflects in our day-to-day life. If I'm sick, the house falls apart. When I don't feel attractive, it shows outwardly. If I am a mess on the inside, it undoubtedly shows in everything else. It goes the other way too. I spend the weekends, cleaning my room, because I can not relax if the areas around me are in chaos.
So, given that I've reasoned this whole thing out, and observed it in nature. Why do I continually fail to prepare? Simple, it's too much work. My natural state is laziness and the world around me is dead set on making my every whim come true. At least, that's what they want me to believe. But I can't do that anymore. The worlds way says, have it all, pay later. But I'm not paying later, I'm paying now. My emotional, spiritual, and physical body reflect all unhealthy attitudes I've adopted. My spirit longs for rebirth, yet I deny it. I'm too content in my squalor. Yet, my spirit moans.
I acknowledge my discontent and I've decided to turn it over. I will follow the Father, and make the changes to live accordingly. My spirit longs for it and I shall not late waste to it anymore. I am renewed, forgiven, and made whole by the Christ who gave it all for me.
Luke 14:28–30
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it—lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish'?"
1 Timothy 5:8
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
Proverbs 21:5
"The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty."
Genesis 41:35–36
"And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine."
Be blessed!
A couple years ago, we had a long cold winter. It's uncommon for our particular area to get hit with snow that seems to last longer than a couple hours. But that year, it lasted two weeks. In the months prior, my mother began to notice that the squirrels in our area had grown thicker, fluffier coats, and they seemed to have been hoarding more nuts than previous years. We took noticed and watched curiously as these creatures began preparing for what they knew to be a hard long winter.
This leads me to my point, or better stated, observation. Why don't we prepare ourselves, such as the animals do? We're intelligent beings, we've been given the gifts of reason and critical thinking. Yet, we squander what we work for, and wallow in waste. We've become desensitized by popular culture to get everything that feels good in the moment. Instead, of preparing ourselves for the future. Don't get me wrong, indulgence isn't a bad thing, as long as it's in moderation. Almost anything can be good, as long as its moderated. It's when we abuse the luxuries we have, that become toxic to our very core. Even the squirrel knows when he can play and when he needs to prepare.
Proverbs 6:6–8
"Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest."
So, given that I've reasoned this whole thing out, and observed it in nature. Why do I continually fail to prepare? Simple, it's too much work. My natural state is laziness and the world around me is dead set on making my every whim come true. At least, that's what they want me to believe. But I can't do that anymore. The worlds way says, have it all, pay later. But I'm not paying later, I'm paying now. My emotional, spiritual, and physical body reflect all unhealthy attitudes I've adopted. My spirit longs for rebirth, yet I deny it. I'm too content in my squalor. Yet, my spirit moans.
I acknowledge my discontent and I've decided to turn it over. I will follow the Father, and make the changes to live accordingly. My spirit longs for it and I shall not late waste to it anymore. I am renewed, forgiven, and made whole by the Christ who gave it all for me.
Luke 14:28–30
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it—lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish'?"
1 Timothy 5:8
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
Proverbs 21:5
"The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty."
Genesis 41:35–36
"And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine."
Be blessed!
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