GOD’S WORD FOR SEPTEMBER 16
GOD’S WORD FOR SEPTEMBER 16 ~ ~ Job 12:7-9 ~~ “ But now ask the animals and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you……that the hand of the Lord has done this”
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Squirrels are enjoyable to watch, and fun for dogs to chase. The squirrels seem to enjoy the fun too.
But other than that, they are very serious about their work, and it isn’t just mindless working either.
Their Creator has shown them how to make a form of maple syrup without boiling!!!!
It was a cold January day when the naturalist was watching a red squirrel who seemed to be nibbling on a sugar maple. Then the squirrel would run to a tree where some of the sap had leaked out and lap at it with his tongue. The naturalist knew that conventional wisdom said it was too early to tap trees for sugar. He also knew that the sap from the trees is 98 percent water and could not provide enough energy to keep the squirrel going in cold weather. Becoming more curious, he decided to study the squirrels’ activity in detail.
He discovered that the red squirrels were systematically tapping the sugar maples with a peculiar bite into the tree. Each bite went through the outer and inner bark and into the xylem where the sap runs. The squirrels were then allowing the running sap to dry until the sugar content was more than 55 percent. Not only were squirrels tapping just the maples, they only tapped them when the weather was right for the sap to run. The mad running up and down the trees actually followed a careful daily schedule of tree visitations that could include over 70 trees!
Could it be that humans learned from squirrels to tap sugar maples? Whatever the answer to that question, we know that it was the Creator Himself Who taught the squirrel the processing and use of this sugary winter treat.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Live in the Light of Our Lord 