My eldest son came in the den last night and said, “I just don’t understand. Why would the dogs drink out the nasty water that is in the puddles in the yard, when they have clean, fresh drinking water in their bowl.” I just sat and smiled. He responded by asking “what are you smiling about.” I just said, “it is a good word picture, isn’t it.” That is when my fourteen year old piped into the conversation, saying “why would we drink out of the sewers of the world, when we could drink from the fountain of God-His pure water?”
I didn’t even have to give an answer. My sons clued in pretty quick. It made no sense that the dogs would walk right past the pure drinking water and lap up the water from the puddles in the grass. And yet, don’t we do the same thing. Don’t we walk right past the fountain of living water and drink from our own cisterns, from the world’s sewer.
It doesn’t make sense for the dogs and it doesn’t make sense for us. Except to say, we are no smarter than the dogs. Wisdom would help us to choose to drink not from the sewer but from the Savior. Not from the puddle but from the pure. And yet, much like a sow that returns to the mire or a dog that returns to its vomit, we return to the world instead of drinking deeply from the pure water that will satisfy every thirst.
Perhaps, we need to double check what we are doing. Are we no better than the dogs?
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