Lizard
The lizard is cold blooded. His body doesn’t generate heat, but his body is the temperature of the environment. In the cold, lizards try to find a place to not freeze, and wait for warmer weather. Then they slowly walk to a sunny rock and sit there almost like they were dead. They warm up in the sunlight and from the heat of the rock. When they are warm, they can run quickly to chase bugs and other lizards.
While they are still cold, sometimes insects will pass them on the rock and they don’t even try to eat. Adam named the lizard ‘death of wanting’. It must have been a cold day that day.
The lizard represents those whose desire for God has become dead. They don’t even want or try to know him.
Sometimes people get hurt so much they don’t care about anything. They may know that God loves them and whispers to them. But the hurt is so much his voice gets drowned out by their own voice screaming in their head .
God says at times like this, “Be still, and know that I am God.” [1]
- lizard leta’ah לטאה - myrrh [death] לט of yearning אה
