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smokey the dog
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What I'm Learning With My DogWhat I'm Learning With My Dog
by smokey the dog 03/31/07
We have a routine around the house that whenever we let Smokey out he always gets a treat when he comes back inside. Sometimes I just give it to him, but often I make him do a trick for it. This morning I let him in and had him sit. I wanted to have him lay down next, but when I said "down" he lay down and immediately rolled over and did his belly up trick. I told him no, and had him sit again, and had him shake hands instead. While he ran off to gulp down his treat I said to him, "Smokey, you have to learn to do what I want you to do, not what you want to do!"
Insert big pause here...
I realized that the same thing is true with our relationship with God. We go out in the world and come in to His house and expect a "treat". We go through our routine and expect to be blessed, but are we doing what God wants us to do?
Hsa 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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