Feeding birds off our patio has been enjoyable for many years now. We get quite the variety appearing to eat their fill each day. They have been learning when and where to eat, and I do even believe they tell their feathered friends to come on over. Here we have an Evening Grosbeak, a Steller's Jay, and a California Quail - all beautiful creations of our Lord who is the Master of design. It is the idea, though, of learning where to eat that I focus on here. Spiritually speaking, where do you eat? Where do you feed? Who do you listen to? What do you read?
Have you noticed that there is today a gigantic amount of books floating around? Do you wade through the shelves or the website and then quit because there are just too many to pick from? How do we even pick a book to read with so many choices? It is a difficult thing to do. The one thing we can know is that reading our Bible is the best and first book to read and absorb. But after that, what or who is going to mentor you? That is really what to think about. You become like who you spend time with, whether movies, books, media, or people. My challenge today for you is to ask God what He wants you to be like, to become. What has He designed you to be? The decision on what to read follows thinking about what you want to become, and that cuts down a lot of book choices. And, if your life is like mine, you do not have an overabundance of time to read in the first place. There again, that cuts down a lot of book choices. We want to use time wisely and invest it so that we get good returns for our choices. We want to become that person of character that fulfills God's design for us. This makes picking books or speakers much easier for us. We then eat what God wants us to eat and become what He wants us to become. Where we eat matters. K.C.
