Sugar Is Sweet

We have a hummingbird feeder hanging high up on the edge of our roof. My wife and I love to watch the hummingbirds coming and going.

Whenever either of us sees one at the feeder we call out, "Hummer!" Just in case the other wants to come see it.

We also get other visitors at our hummingbird feeder BESIDES hummingbirds. Like ants. We get lots of ants. When the nectar gets low, the ants can actually climb in through the feeding holes. Sadly, that's where most of the visiting ants die.

It's quite a hike for those little guys - all the way up the wall of our house and out onto the roof overhang and down to the bottom of the feeder. But they love the sweet stuff SO much that they are willing to die just to have some.

Do you like doughnuts? Me too. However they are not good for me. They are filled with sugar. They taste SO good! Yet they increase our blood sugar which leads to diabetes and ultimately death.

We humans sure can be obsessive about the things that we love. And, just like the ants, we sometimes die in pursuit of our desires through vices like drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc. We become addicted because we crave it, just like Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit.

Thankfully we have a Savior available to us to save us from our sin and the death that it causes. His name is Jesus. It is though our belief in Him that we are saved.

"And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” - Acts 4:12

"For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9

"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved." - Romans 10:9-10

What is YOUR hummingbird feeder?