Hunny was a large, hunting dog with long, strong legs for running very fast. This dog has one of the strangest sounding breed names—Weimaraner. This breed of dog also has webbed toes, so they are good water dogs too. But in our story today, Hunny wasn’t anywhere near water. She liked to go for walks and liked sniffing all the many smells in God’s creation ... especially animal smells.
Hunny also liked to please Jill, her master, but sometimes Hunny would smell something on their walks that got her attention, and then Jill’s voice wasn’t important. This day what she smelled so interested her that nothing else mattered, not even Jill’s calls to “STOP!” It was a rabbit, and Hunny chased after the rabbit as fast as she could run.
The rabbit ran into a thicket with Hunny close behind. Jill screamed, “STOP, HUNNY, STOP!” But Hunny didn’t obey; that rabbit was all she was paying attention to at the moment.
Hunny didn’t know there was a wire fence in the middle of the thicket. Perhaps Jill knew about the wire fence and screamed out the warning to her, but Hunny ignored Jill’s warning.
God sees far ahead in the paths you and I are walking, and He also sees dangers ahead that we can’t see. He warns us of these dangers in His wonderful book, the Bible. Here are some warnings He gives us that we should pay attention to and obey. “Flee from the wrath to come” (Luke 3:77Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Luke 3:7)). “The soul that [sins], it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:44Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezekiel 18:4)). “Go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away” (Proverbs 4:14-1514Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. (Proverbs 4:14‑15)). But if we choose to ignore God’s warnings, the results will be far worse than what happened to Hunny.
The rabbit was small enough to run right through the holes in the fence. When Hunny tried to do the same thing, she was too big to fit through the holes—BANG! The disobedient dog slammed into the wire fence that was in the middle of the thicket.
Jill was anxious that Hunny might have gotten injured, but remarkably, God spared her from a fence injury that day. Her only injury might have been to her doggie pride—that the rabbit got away.
God loves you very much and invites you to spend eternity in heaven with His Son, Christ Jesus, who died for you. He offers forgiveness for your sins if you will by faith accept Him as your very own Saviour. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). If you choose to ignore His warnings and His offer of forgiveness, you will die in your sins and face “the wrath to come.”
ML-02/19/2012