My NEW, new cat

If you’ve been to church in the past couple weeks, you may have noticed that we have an abundance of cats in the area. Pending on who you are, this can be a good thing or a bad thing. If you like cats, obviously, then this would thrill your soul. If however, you do not like cats (i.e. you think they are the bane of human existence, wonder if they were a result of the Fall, find yourself saying, “The only good cat is a dead cat”) then this may put a damper on your trips to church. Recently, I took such cat in and made him my own. This was a short lived venture because after a long weekend away, I returned to find that he had sought greener pastures and took up residence elsewhere. This came as a bit of a shock because I thought I had done an adequate job in caring for the little fellow. Alas, he I moved on and so did I. On Monday of this week, the staff started noticing a new cat who is quite friendly. Actually, she’s a little too friendly! And she talks constantly! This is no joke: the silly thing meows almost nonstop when in the presence of anything she thinks she can receive attention from! (I know other girls like this, but we’ll not be discussing them here nor there!) Yesterday afternoon while walking across the parking lot, I discovered yet another feline! This one is dark gray and white. She has a patch of white that goes from below her nose to the middle of her chest, white gloves and socks up to her knees. This cat almost has a super-hero look to her. Anyways, this one wasn’t nearly as annoying as the other, so I took it home and fed it. I’m still out on a name, but we’ll see if it stays around for more than a week before we get too attached. (Post a comment if you want to contribute to name ideas!)

Proverbs 2:7-8 says, “He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones”. On Monday of this week, I talked about the Lord being a shield and his promises being comforting. Here is a good example of that. The upright and the blameless are his people. God will work in the lives of those people who are living for him and keeping their lives straight on his path. As we’re walking on that path, whether we feel like we “see” it or not, understand it or not, or agree with it or not, the Lord will guard the path and protect those who are on it. It’s a simple thing to say, but I’ll be the first to admit it’s hard to live out. I have sin in my life as well as the next guy. Because we sin, we die. That’s life. But that sin isn’t the death sentence it used to be. The life of Christ showed us the path to walk on and Scripture lights that path well. His death on the cross and the resurrection from the dead has taken the death-sting out of sin, if we live for God in Christ. We still sin, sure, but we can’t live in it, or we aren’t truly in Christ. We have the victory because sin no longer has hold of us. Walk the path for it is guarded and it is straight and it has been walked before!

National Missionary Convention/Windows of the World on Oct. 1-3 will be an event that you should not miss. Make a place for it on your calendar today!
There are NO Sunday pm services this week.

Later…