Have you ever tried to type with a cat sitting on your desk?
Or maybe said cat is sitting on your knee.
If your cat is anything like my two, then Polar Monkey will have his rear end deposited on the keyboard and Oscar will be winding his way around my legs, crying that he is starving.
As Oscar looks a bit like a blimp, I know full well he’s not starving, but being a rescue kitten who was left behind when some tenants shifted, I guess he thinks he must eat as often as he can find food. Which appears to be 24/7.
How can people be so cruel? If they didn’t want the kitten or couldn’t keep him, surely it would have been a lot kinder to take him to an animal refuge?
Now Polar, on the other hand, has had a very privileged life. From the time of his birth, this monkey of a Burmese kitten was looked after properly. And the difference in the two cats shows. Polar knows he is loved. He knows he is wanted and has a special place in our household. Oscar, while he has been loved just as much, has never been able to overcome being abandoned.
How like people in their response to Father God these two puss-cats are.
One person knows how much they are loved by a God who is love and knows there is nothing they can do to be loved any more than they already are. They are absolutely certain of their place in the Kingdom of God. And it shows in their interactions with others. They are filled with the love flowing from the throne of God, pouring that love out onto others.
And then there are the Oscars who are constantly seeking affirmation. The brokenness in their hearts and minds has never healed.
They do not quite believe that God will always look after them, just as His word says. Therefore, they work and strive to prove they are worthy. To prove they are acceptable. From their uncertainty, a performance-based neediness evolves, keeping them trapped in an endless cycle of fear; not being good enough; never sure that God isn’t out to ‘get them’; not quite understanding that God is their Father, and thus just as a good father does, accepts and loves them exactly as they are.
I wrote about this in “To SHULA With Love.” The works and performance-based Christianity kills and destroys, trapped endlessly in a cycle of trying to prove themselves good enough for God.
Religious beliefs do not free us into being Sons of the Kingdom of Heaven.
There is nothing you can do, say, act. You can never pray enough. Read your Bible enough. Go to church enough. Tithe enough. Nothing at all can separate you from the love of God.
It doesn’t matter whether you kicked the cat, yelled at the kids and thought bad thoughts.
YOU. ARE. COMPLETELY. UNUTTERABLY. ADORED. BY. FATHER. GOD.
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