Over the years, the Lord has shown me a lot about what it means to serve him and what it means to be a Christian through the time I spend with dogs. I have three dogs that I feed and play with every day. I love them all very much. Sometimes they get into stuff they shouldn’t and do things they ought not to do. One of them, “Blue,” was recently getting out when she shouldn’t.
The first couple of times Blue got out, I found out how and so plugged the hole, so to speak. After being scolded each time for getting out, Blue “apologized” in a way that only dogs can. However, she found another way to get out, which took a bit of searching. Each time, Blue apologized. Yet, the last time she apologized, I told her I wasn’t buying it. In fact, I told her that she would just start looking for a new way to get out and then apologize again once she got caught. I thought about how different dogs are from people and how “superior” we are to them. That we could control ourselves and not “do it again.”
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