I Think I'll Lay Back Down

I have an older collie dog at my house. I usually let him run free except when someone unfamiliar drives up. The dog loves to chase cars. Red trucks like the one the meter man drives are his favorite. I chained him one day and forgot all about him until the next morning. Please don't call the humane society, the dog forgave me already. As soon as the chain came off, he ran to the woods, rejoicing you might say, because he had been set free. About two minutes later he returned to the same spot where he had been bound and just laid back down. I had to go out and remind him, “I have set you free, why are you just lying there as if you are still bound?". Now I said all that to say all this.

How many times has God set us free and we forget almost that quickly? We leave the chains rejoicing and soon return to the place where we were bound. Am I really saved? Am I really healed? Am I really delivered? Maybe the evil is still with me. Maybe I am really hopeless and helpless. We just lie back down in the same spot defeated and forget what God has done for us. When God tells you that you are free, believe Him. Don't doubt in your heart or in your head. Come on now, you know you are smarter than that old collie dog that chases red trucks. Oh, it is a good idea to watch out for those tempting red trucks or whatever temptation Satan throws your way. One of his favorites is doubt.

Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you. That whosoever shall say unto this mountain Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things, which he saith, shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.

By Judy Parker
August 2003