Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all! (Romans 1:20 GNT)
Someone recently posted that the hummingbirds are back! Hearing that news brought us much joy. On our back porch, we have a special place reserved for our hummingbird feeder. We are preparing for their arrival.
In doing a little research, we found out that hummingbirds are birds in the family Trochilidae, and that they are native to North and South America.
There is something very special about hummingbirds. They don’t act like the birds we see out our front windows - finches, cardinals, sparrows, etc. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 50-80 beats per second, and they can fly at speeds over 30 mph.
Hummingbirds are the only group of birds that can fly frontwards, backwards, and sideways. Another interesting thing they can do is show off during courtship doing U-shaped dives at 60 mph! The mystery of how hummingbirds are able to fly points to the evidence of a very creative Creator!
“Whenever I am afield or outdoors, there steals over me the acute consciousness that I am confronted on every hand by the superb workmanship of my Father. It is as if every tree, rock, river, flower, mountain, bird, or blade of grass had stamped upon it the indelible label, ‘Made by God.’ Is it any wonder that in a simple yet sublime sense of devotion, respect, and reverence for all life, Christ longed for His Father’s name to be hollowed throughout the earth?” - Philip Keller