Hosanna Restoration Church

I firmly believe that the Holy Spirit can use most anything to teach us something if we will just let Him. This morning, God used a cat trick to instruct me. Have you ever had God teach you through strange means? Of course you have!

I had just settled in for a great time with God. In fact I was just telling Him that I thought this would be a great day to just stay right in that spot all day, when the cat began to meow. Now I had let him in and put food in his dish only minutes before this, but now he wanted out. I did not want him to wake the rest of the house, so I begrudgingly got up to take care him. After all, the Bible says that a righteous man cares for his animals. That scripture has save the cats life more than nine times I am sure! Anyway, when I go to let him out, he runs to the top of the stairs and I have to chase him down before I finally catch him and put him out. By this point I was not necessarily a happy camper, but I did manage to do it without bouncing him off the driveway.

At last, back in the place I wanted to be before I was so rudely interrupted, I said to the Lord, “it sure would have been easier on the cat and me if he just would have come to where I was, made his little meow, and we would have had it done in short order.” To that, the Lord’s response was basically that I could learn a lesson from the cat. Some of you are already seeing the lesson.

How many times do we call out to God and then move to a different spot instead of just waiting upon Him? By the time I caught up to the cat, I had to pluck him out of crack between the wall and the bed by the nap of his neck just to do for him what he wanted in the first place. How many times does God literally have to pluck us out of our own messes in order to give us what we needed to begin with?

We call and we call and never wait for Him to answer. We try to get Him on our timetable instead of trusting His. I am glad that He has more patience than I do. I am also glad that He is willing to come after me if he has to in order to help me. But it sure would be quicker and easier if after I call, I would wait upon the Lord.

Has the Lord ever had to follow you to that spot between a rock and hard place before you would let Him pick you up and carry you back where you really want to be? How God must have laughed as He watched me get mad at the cat and then used him to teach me a lesson. What does the Holy Spirit use to teach you? If you are like me, you really don’t care what God uses. You just want Him to keep leading you into His truth.