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Recently
our dog Oreo started showing some rather startling behavior. He decided
that he likes playing with and chewing on our firewood, which is piled right against
the house outside a window. But that isn't the outstanding part!
Oreo knocks on the window with sticks
from the firewood pile! He uses his mouth to latch on to a branch
protruding from the side
of a small piece of firewood, and swings his head toward the window, knocking
on the glass. I
didn't fully believe the stories I was hearing from my wife until I saw
it with my own eyes.
It is very intentional and he stops when we tell him too.
Dogs generally aren't supposed to devise
behavior like that. I can't totally explain it but it is true never
the less.
Our sinful nature predetermines that we are
going to have a problem with sinning. In 1
Corinthians 6, Paul addressed his readers as
people who had come from some very dark sins. He points out in verse
11 that they were
"old dogs" that had, by the grace of God, learned some new tricks.
Many were "has-been" sinners.
Paul was trying to show the whole church that they didn't have to
live like the world did,
they could learn to overcome their past sins.
Don't be controlled by the devil's lie that
you "can't change." Some of God's greatest saints were transformed
from horrible sin by the power of the risen Lord Jesus Christ.
You can be too!
All Scripture references are from the New American
Standard Version unless otherwise noted.
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New Trick
