Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Chickadees


Last week I wrote about chickens. Well, kind of. This week I’m writing about chickadees. Just because I want to. I think chickadees are amazing. Sure, lots of things are amazing in this great big incredible world that God made, but chickadees are something else.

Now, I know that not everyone thinks chickadees are a big deal. After all, they are not really big at all. In fact, they are really very small, and seemingly insignificant. That is one of the reasons I like them so much (apart from their incredible repertoire of course). It is their DEFIANCE!!! They refuse to be dismissed. They defy the enemy. They stare that great big harsh Canadian north wind right in the eye and they don’t even blink. At least I’ve never seen one blink. They eat winter for breakfast. They might not be big on the outside but, mister, they are big on the inside! They can tough it out with the best of them. Those other birds can fly south every winter and wimp-out in some tropical paradise but not these little guys. No sir. They wouldn’t even consider it. They say, ‘bring it on’. You’d think their little feet would freeze and fall off, but appearances can be deceiving. I think those little chickadees are a great testimony for God because of the way they defy the elements; the gods of this world, with their assumptions and preconceptions. They don’t appear to be any great thing, but then, there they are, living out their little lives with supernatural strength in the midst of the raging forces of a big bad world. They remind me of David, with armies looking on, staring down the giant in the land. Appearances can be deceiving for sure.

You think I’m being melodramatic but I’m really not. These little guys inspire me to no end. Those bitter cold winds and sub-zero temperatures do their utmost to drive away any sign of life and, meanwhile, what does the little chickadee do? He just keeps on doing his thing, the thing that God created him to do. There are these people who have been given a strong voice in our world today that boldly proclaim that all of this incredible creation we see around us just happened, by chance and without cause. They want us to believe that if things were to just somehow happen, this is what we would somehow end up with! They profess to have an answer for everything. I don’t hear any real answers coming out of their mouths at all; just a lot of bitter cold rhetoric and nasty animosity towards God; a lot of ranting and raving and going on. But, if you disagree with them they will belittle you and intimidate you. Don’t think so, just ask a Christian on a university campus. They are like bullies on the playground who want everyone to cower before them in hopes that it will somehow sooth their own self-doubt.

Yeah, I know, they have an explanation for how the blood flow in those little feet allow the little guys to function in such a cold climate, quite comfortably I’m sure. They have an explanation for everything. They have all the answers. They’d really like you to think so. But they don’t seem to realize that they really haven’t explained anything. Science tells us how things are. It doesn’t tell us how it came to be, at least real science hasn’t explained that. Pseudo science maybe “… a hundred million years ago…” Give me a break!!! More importantly, they can’t explain WHY?! Why what? Why anything! They have no ‘why’. They have no ‘why’… no meaning… no purpose… no hope… no One… Why, even a little chickadee defies their unbelief. I just love those little guys.

“Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him… But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things.”

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

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