{"id":9912,"date":"2023-11-24T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gospelbillboards.org\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2023-11-24T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:43:05","slug":"wee-winged-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelbillboards.org\/wee-winged-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wee Winged Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"
Listen to Audio<\/a> A hummingbird feeder was suspended just outside the kitchen window by a wire. The feeder was an inverted plastic bottle filled with sugar water that emptied into a bright red dispenser with ten ports. It should have been possible for ten hummingbirds to drink at the same time, but this never happened. Though there were dozens of hungry birds, the hummers had never learned to share. They came to the feeder with two objectives: objective number two was to get a drink of sugar water, and objective number one was to make sure no one else got a drink. With fierce little squeaks they darted about, guarding access to the feeder.<\/p>\n Watching, the man wished he could line up all the hummingbirds on the clothesline and lecture them. He\u2019d start by explaining how illogical and foolish their behavior was. Their aggressive behavior made for high stress and low satisfaction every day. But then he stopped in his tracks as he realized he was the one who should get in line first for a lecture. Wasn\u2019t it just last week that he\u2019d resisted Joe\u2019s good idea for no other reason than that he hadn\u2019t thought of it first? And hadn\u2019t he recently refrained from giving his son a well-earned compliment because . . . well, why? What was it that made him want to be first, to have the biggest piece of pie, and to keep others quiet so he could talk?<\/p>\n The man bowed his head amid the chorus of angry hummingbird squeaks and prayed, \u201cGod, help me think more of others and less of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Within our passioned hearts instill<\/b>
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\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cBe kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another\u201d (Romans <\/a>12:10<\/a>)<\/h4>\n
\nThe calm that endeth strain and strife;<\/b>
\nMake us thy ministers of life;<\/b>
\nPurge us from lusts that curse and kill!<\/b>
\n\u2014W. M. Vories<\/p>\n