I have recently had crows in my yard. Oddly enough I have unwittingly made burnt offerings to them twice; a burned grilled cheese sandwich left on the stove and later a piece of garlic bread I was heating on broil and forgot.
I do not put much stock in superstitions but I have had enough odd things happen lately that I thought I would document.
This summer I killed 3 snakes; one out of mercy (dying in the road), one moving wood from a tree I cut down and lastly one I did not see while cutting weeds.
Our God is not one who deals in superstition but at the same time has given us a faith rich in symbolism and hidden meaning. We have a patient and mysterious God who waits for us to choose him and is hidden all around us.
So back to the crows, bread is given in communion, it is Christ as a sacrificial lamb that has been sacrificed once for all our sin. The murder of Crows is symbolic of the end of death, for by that sacrifice we all can be redeemed from death to life.
The 3 snakes, all are for what must die with the sacrifice of the lamb. Sin, in the Bible, is the reason or cause for death and we must bury it with Christ if we want to rise with Jesus.
The first snake, killed out of mercy is to remind us of the suffering sin causes others. Sin often impacts someone else and so is in opposition to the covenant, Love God and love your neighbor.
The next was killed by a piece of tree, a branch, because Jesus is the tree of life and he came to defeat sin. Christ came to save sinners so the tree will defeat sin with grace.
Lastly the one killed while weed eating. Jesus tells a parable of the farmer who in the night his enemy sowed weeds into his harvest. Gods people are his harvest but weeds are among us. The removing the weeds will happen on the last day, then is when we conquer the serpent, who uses sin to accuse Gods people.
This may seem like a superstitious rant but it is meant to show how God sometimes whispers in our lives. God is all around us, revealing who he is to us all the time, and we often miss it. Do not miss the chance to see God and how he is working around you.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle,”
Albert Einstein