"Tight lines" is a blessing fishermen offer each other, a wish for lines taut with the weight of good fish. May God grant that the lines written here be taut with His blessings.
Thursday, 14 August 2008 | |||
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Dog Faith | |||
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In The Gospel According to Peanuts, among all
Schultz's cartoon characters it is Snoopy who Robert Short finds most
like Christ. Not that Snoopy represents Christ--he's too flawed for that.
But Short says the dog represents us as Christians. Very imperfect,
humble and dependent, and more or less obedient to his master. In Matthew 15:21-28, this coming Sunday we read about the dog-like faith of a Canaanite woman who had a strange interchange with Jesus. She came begging and crying for Him to help her demon-possessed daughter. Because she was not Jewish, Jesus ignored her and then told "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs." When the woman accepted the label, and argued that even dogs get the crumbs under the table, He healed her daughter. Most of us are offended at the idea that faith involves abject, dog-like bowing and scraping before God. Yet our easy sense of Jesus as our friend might need occasionally to be adjusted by remembering all the times and ways in which those in Scripture encountered Jesus and fell on their knees to acknowledge Him as Lord and Master. | |||
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I am the pastor of Valley Covenant Church in Eugene, Oregon. I love to flyfish and hike along the beautiful rivers in our area. I welcome your comments as I share sermon work in progress and occasional other thoughts.
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