I’ve noticed that the dynamics in my relationship with my cats seem to parallel my relationship with God. I love nothing better than for my cats to come to me of their own accord, climb up in my lap – even when I’m working! – and just purr, because they’re happy to be near me. And I know from my bible studies that my wish for the cats is much like God’s wish that I love Him and desire to be near him. And when I am closest to Him, I am happiest. So, why the heck won’t the cats come to me, when they LOVE to be petted and scratched? When I gladly supply all their needs, why don’t they show some gratitude? Beats me… right now my relationship with God is firmly on the upswing. I’m enjoying more interest in Him, in the Bible, than I have for a long time. I find myself looking forward to church. But all it takes is to skip one day of study and devotion, and the next day it feels ten times harder to get back… Here’s hoping I finally lose the “cattitude” and behave more like a dog.
Cats are to humans what humans are to God? Wish I were a dog…
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[...] This really spoke to me – I have been struggling for so long with this lack of desire to do a daily study and have a daily prayer time. Things have been a mess since we evac’d for Hurricane Katrina, but that’s no excuse; I was struggling with it long before then. But God has been with me the whole time, I see it more clearly than ever, and I am so grateful. And since we evacuated, I have had quite a few chances to serve, and it has been a blessing to do it. Stalin said, “Gratitude is a disease of dogs,” but if that’s true it’s not a bad thing – after all, it’s how this blog started. [...]
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[...] Several verses reached out and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck this morning. (That works whether I am a cat or a dog… ) Like a lot of people, I have a very hard time relating to the concept of God as a father, because my relationship with my earthly father is so lacking. Rom 8:15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father! Receivedλαμβάνωlambanōlam-ban’-oA prolonged form of a primary verb, which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively [probably objective or active, to get hold of; whereas G1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while G138 is more violent, to seize or remove]): – accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up). [...]
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