Until I discovered something precious, I have been a dog! I had ever walked around and I had never stopped. Sometimes I just changed the environment and I had never changed from being a dog.
My behaviors,my imaginations, my actions, almost after those of a dog, or maybe a chihuahua. Funny enough, I just liked being a dog, because I never saw any essence of living as human.
After a dog ages a little, it can be sold or given to someone as a gift, the same way I was given to my parents ,then eventually they gave me to school. I despised the nature by putting up with my weird minds.
That kind of mind was very dangerous. The mind is still dangerous to anyone who may have it today. I remember I could do a mistake ,not one or two. I repeated some mistakes unknowingly. For some, I committed knowingly.
A dog vomit and returns to its vomit. (Luke 16:21)
I wondered which direction I could take. What I knew was that I had to make a move, even if it meant in neither direction. A dog can just wake up and decide to make a move.Who tells the dog to make a move? Does it have a job so that it should wake up earlier to avoid brushing shoulders with the boss. Does it even sleep? Yes it does.
Even when it’s daytime,and some hours in the night too.Just like that dog,I also found myself awake at 3 in the morning engulfed in sharp strikes of thoughts, sometimes I even didn’t sleep for fear of insecurities. I was ever suspicious of what would await me the following day, or even in those dark hours.
I could relate the way I breathed during sunny days. I could relate the way I was turned bitter and talkative whenever I was offended. I could also relate the way I got happy and sang joy whenever I approached my fine days.
I listened to the barking dogs outside. They were either offended, or in other words, they were just expressing their feelings of happiness as they prepared to tackle their night duties.
My life and that of a dog was just one of the allusions I used to make those days. I was never reading the word of God. I could not understand how human in nature I was. i sometimes imagined that I was no longer human. Was I just another version of a dog in a different architect that God had constructed? Little did I know.
In Genesis 2:7, the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul!
od did not make a body and inserted a soul into it as you can do to an envelope. Rather, he formed man from the dust, he breathed divine breath into it and by doing this, he made body of dust live. Thus, the body did not embody a soul, it just became a soul, a soul that is alive.
Being a living soul means there is even a continuation of life after death. There is also a sure instinct that human beings have the ability to know what is right and what is wrong, a habit that animals never have.
Earlier, God had made beast of earth after his kind, cattle after his kind, and everything that creape on earth after his kind, including dogs! He never breathed a breath of life in the dog. Therefore there is no way a human being can be in the same rank as the dog and as among all other creatures. No one has this feeling unless he is not exposed to the word of God and meditate upon it.
I can draw a conclusion that human life is like a boat surrounded by the sea. Only the compass can save it from getting off the direction. The word of God is the direction of our lives. Without the word, our lives are likely to get swayed by our imaginations, our bad company and even the antichrist.
Many people nowadays act like animals not because they like it.There is lack of exposure to the word of God. Even if there is, then meditation upon it is never their concern.Treating others as a means is one of the traits of animals. A human being should treat other human beings as an end.
Reading the word helps us grow strong spiritully buy feeding our souls as human beings.The word helps us to even pray more. It makes us aware of our surrounding and guides us to the true God. One will never get lost in his instincts or be swayed by the winds of this earth. Read the word of God. It is the life for human beings.
You are human. No dog shall resemble you. You shall never be a dog even if you decide that your actions should bear resemblance to its action.
When you don’t read, you will be anything. When you read, you will be a treasure.
