Cats, cats, and more cats! Although we have never been “cat people”, we realize that just like our livestock guardian dogs have a job, these feral cats have an important job on the farm too. The problem is they are multiplying!
Where there is livestock there is feed, and where there is feed there are mice. So over the last two months, we realized that we needed to invest in our employees by providing them with free “family planning” services. They are a little skeptical, so we have become quite skilled at the art of “cat catching”. We have rehomed over a dozen kittens and “fixed” the feral adults, who are then released.
After surgery, the adults remain confined for a period of time before they are released to go back to living wild and free. As soon as the door on the cage is opened, some bolt out like a streak of lightening, but surprisingly, the wildest ones don’t. Some are so focused on their captivity, that they never realize that they have been set free.
How many of us struggle with issues that keep us in bondage? Addictions, toxic relationships, fear, greed, envy, our tempers….there are so many ways that we can lose our freedom. How many times are we so focused on our situation (or our sin), that we miss our chance to escape from captivity?
After an hour of sitting in a cage with an open door, I had to show this cat how to be free. So who can show us how to be free? A man named Jesus is the only one who can show us the true way to freedom! He is our open Door. All we have to do is trust Him, and walk through.
John 10:7
Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Won’t you walk through the Door to freedom today?