Someone may say that I am unfairly accusing our community cat for the disappearance of our one remaining quail.
Could be a coyote, of course; coyotes and cats have a similar nature, but our Napa Valley is so thickly settled that I wonder if a coyote would want to infiltrate our human presence here (I suppose some old-timer will tell me of times when coyotes have gotten in).
But knowing the nature of our lovable pets, cats, I still can't help feeling that the cat may know something. We can pet these little creatures and they will purr delightedly, but they are by nature predators. And God has not promised a new nature for cats of any kind until after the second coming of Jesus Christ.
(a) When He comes, and He re-creates our earth into His glorious "new earth" (see Revelation 22:1-7, etc.), all who will inhabit His glorious "earth made new" will have experienced a change in their nature.
(b) People are by nature predators even as cats are, for Romans 8:7 says, "The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." We who are by nature at "enmity against God" have all the evil within our nature that is in being predators.
(c) We ALL need to be converted; we ALL need a new nature; we ALL need a Savior from ourselves.
(d) Think of the tremendous change in nature that the lion will experience in God's great new earth: "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock. ... They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord" (Isaiah 65:25).å
(e) That means there will be no predators in that wonderful new earth!
(f) If the lion can experience such a tremendous change in nature, why can't we experience a change in our nature now by the much more abounding grace of our Lord Jesus Christ?
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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