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*Stupid Beagle*
I received an email the other day from a friend up in Maine.
He writes: “it seems every time I turn around at home there’s a pair of BIG Brown Love filled eyes staring at me.
It makes me wonder; Lord, what did I ever do to deserve such unconditional Love?
Cindy you say?
Well, sometimes, but no, it’s LUCY! Charlie Brown was right, Stupid Beagle!
So I’m sitting home staring at this stupid Beagle when I can’t make a trip and she just kindah blinks those big brown eyes at me, sighs, and wags her tail.
She’s actually quite smart, too smart, and very demand’n of my time.
I think she’s a little jealous of Cindy too cuz she’ll climb up on the kitchen table to chew Cindy’s stuff.
Not foods mind ya, and no one else’s stuff, jus Cindy’s!
She knows when I haven’t paid enough attention to her before I go to bed too.
She requires a certain amount of luv’n, before being tucked under her blankets for the night!
She WILL prove her disdain to me if I neglect that requirement too.
Just as soon as I open the bed room door I know.
If she’s at the door wagging her tail, I dun good.
If not, she’s on the couch on TOP of her blankets with a “take that!” look in her eyes!
I can go to bed at 3:00 Sunday night & get up to a 5:00 Monday morning surprise!
Other than that, she can wait 10-12 hours!
It’s a hard call sometimes, pay attention to Lucy and sleep a little less, or sleep a little more and clean up a mess!
Stupid Beagle!
She knows how bad I want her to come when I call her too.
Her standard position is nose to the ground and tail in the air, thinks she’s a hunter.
Doesn’t matter if there’s a foot of fresh snow on the ground, she’ll jus make like a snow plow!
She can be 10 feet away when I call her and the tail will just wag faster!
Doesn’t matter how loud I yell either, but when I start growl’n and my eyes throw fire, she knows it’s time.
Well… and here’s the scary part, I got to thinking about that relationship the other day.
I think maybe that dog looks at me a little bit like a god… Stupid Beagle!
You think maybe the Good Lord has kind of the same relationship with us?
Are we as good at being God’s best friend as the dog is at being Man’s best friend?
How long did it take you to happily greet the Lord after the last time He scolded you?
What kind of mess do you leave for Him when you feel He hasn’t treated you right?
How long do you make Him call your name before you pay heed?
Are you envious of the things that God has given others?
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Now as I read this note I really began to think about our lives like that “stupid beagle”.
I remember when Lucy was born.
She was such a cute little beagle with the longest ears I have ever seen.
Her ears were so long that when she would drink from the bowl they would come out sopping wet.
Lucy was also the smallest in her litter but don’t let her size fool you, she was the notorious ring leader for mischief and mayhem.
She could get into so much trouble in such a short amount of time.
Kind of like us.
You know we were born to sin, it is in our nature, but like Lucy we have to find a new home when the time is right and the master presents himself to us.
Lucy was the runt of the litter and nobody wanted her, except her new master.
As Christians we were part of a world that was “lost and undone” we lived in the bondage of sin preparing ourselves for eternal damnation until that day when Jesus our master came and took us into his home.
What a day that was.
We were so happy to have a new master.
There were new things to see and do.
But like Lucy, we had some things to learn.
Lucy had to learn how to obey her new master.
She had to learn what was expected of her and when.
She had to learn where she could go and where she couldn’t.
She had to learn how to behave around her master, she had to submit to the nourishment that the master provided.
She had to learn the difference between mischief and play, and when push comes to shove, she had to learn to come to his summons.
As Christians our obedience training begins in Colossians 3:8 where we are told to “…put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new /man,/ which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”
We must put off.
We must take and distance ourselves from living a life controlled by anger and wrath.
Here in Colossians these two words have similar meanings but they express a degree of anger.
Firstly, there is the word anger.
From the Greek word Orge, this type of anger is the kind where we simmer, we have that slow burning irritability towards someone for something that they might have said or done.
And we usually keep it to ourselves.
We hide it away and wonder why these people can be so happy when we are so angry at them.
It festers within us and is long lasting The second type of anger talked about here in Colossians-wrath, is from the Greek word Thumos, this type of anger is, I would say, the next level of anger.
It is explosive in intensity.
We would probably use the word rage to describe it.
We go from a simmering anger to a boiling over anger.
But once it explodes there’s nothing left.
Probably, a good example of that would be when someone gets into a car accident, and it’s the other guys fault.
They leap out of the car in a rage because of the other driver’s carelessness.
The next item that Paul talks about is malice.
It seems that after talking about two types of anger, Paul is talking about one of the consequences or the gradual result of anger.
Malice is when we wish to do someone harm and we think and wish for evil things to happen to them.
Do you remember 9~/11?
Our country suffered a blow and we wanted to retaliate.
We wanted to strike back at Bin Laden and make him suffer.
That is malice.
Now Paul shifts his attention to the things we say.
As a Christian we must put off slanderous speech whether it is directed at man or God.
We must be able to talk about others without gossiping and with respect.
We must also put off filthy communication.
As a Christian we have the responsibility and the expectation of others to speak a certain way.
We should not swear.
Looking back, I think if we get our anger issues out of the way, the opportunities to swear will greatly diminish.
But also in general conversation, our words need to reflect cleanliness and should not be full of derogatory or suggestive comments.
Our words should be pure, true, and kind.
All to often the world judges us by how we speak.
If Jesus reigns in our hearts then when we speak the world should hear Jesus speaking through our lips.
I have mentioned the words “to put off” several times.
Paul is talking about our old sinful nature.
That which we were before we knew Jesus.
We are to take it off, like we would an old coat, and put on a new coat.
In a song written by the Browders, a Southern Gospel Group from West Virginia, is the best description I can find for putting off the old and putting on the new.
In their song entitled “Two Coats” Matthew sings:
Well I’ll tell you the best thing I ever did do.
I laid off the old coat and put on the new.
Two coats were before me- an old and a new.
I could have either but what must I do.
The old coat was ugly, tattered and torn.
The other, a new coat had never been worn.
I’ll tell you the best thing I ever did do, I laid off the old coat and put on the new.
The first man was earthly, a man from the ground.
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