Hummingbird or a Vulture: Looking at life through Two Perspectives

 Greetings,

What are you looking for in life? 

What are you expecting to find in life? 

The altitude you possess reflects what you wish to find in life. The hummingbird and the vulture are two birds one can use to visualize this expectancy. The hummingbird experiences life by seeking food sources involving a variety of living foods, and the vulture seeks food involving dead things, such as rotting flesh from dead animals.

 

But what if I identify with the vulture perspective in that, as a Christian, I experience life as a vulture? What is that saying about my choices in life? Darkness spiritually means God did not abolish darkness at creation. God added Light. But for many, darkness symbolizes all that is negative, harmful, evil, and fearful.

Analysis of the vulture perspective reveals that the vulture's diet consists of dead things without getting sick. Creatively designed by God as they ingest rotting flesh, protected by potent acids in the vultures' gut that begin digesting the meat so entirely that it even destroys the prey's D.N.A. So, can you continue experiencing life without getting sick? Jesus again unto them as a Christian, saying, "I am the Light of the world. He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of life" (John 8:12 K.J.V.). 

Some individuals understand their dark appetites are not acceptable to God, especially when they look over and see the hummingbird feasting on life experiences, producing life and that life more abundantly. Desiring dark things excites many individuals, but the aspect of excitement and the unknown that turns many on also turns many away from God.

So, how does an individual break the vicious cycle of desiring a life comparable to a vulture? One must practice and know that according to Colossians 3:10, each individual has put on the new self, which brings renewal in knowledge after the image of its creator. Consider this scripture and ask yourself, am I a hummingbird or a vulture? Your answer will determine what you are looking for in life and What you expect to find.

 

 P.O.V. Desiring the wrong things produces strange bed-fellows. 

Here are some scriptures on desiring God:

• Psalms 37:4 - Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
• Proverbs 10:24 - The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
• Psalm 73:25 - Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
• Jeremiah 29:13 - You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
• 1 John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Desiring God, Not Darkness,

Minister Sylvia Joyner