Despite the cats’ wayward ways, we still love them. In fact, we love them enough to put limits on them. We buy tricky cat harnesses that no cat can, supposedly, escaped from. We leash them or even try to confine them in-doors. The cats don’t get it. They are wild inside. They can fend for themselves by tuning into that killer instinct, something Fido the dog can no longer find that frequency. As cat owners, we get it. We restrain them for their good. We know cats pick up intestinal worms by eating mice and rabbits. We see first hand what happens when a car rolls over a fat house cat and all nine lives are spent in an instant. Thud. Splat. Flat cat!
This arrangement reminds me of my relationship with God. I can see the world beyond the mesh netting of my divinely placed Outback Jack Outdoor Cat Enclosure. I want to run through the mesh and into the freedom beyond, yet, God prevents me. I don’t get it. God does. In his book Trusting God, author Jerry Bridges says, “God can restrain not only people’s actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God’s sovereign but mysterious control.” God knows about the worms and the car tires that would probably eat me up and run me over if I had my own way. Thank God I don’t! Thank God for the Outback Jack Outdoor Cat Enclosure: non-sponsor the of the Telescope Show. Thanks for reading! Click one of the links. Anything you buy on that trip to Amazon will help the show.
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