The Bible on Trial

Injured Kitty~

Sparky is one of two cats in our house, and is the sweetest cat you could ever hope to meet. Tuesday at about 7:15PM she was involved in a fight with a big orange cat in our back yard, a cat that has been coming over from time to time. I ran outside from the kitchen when I heard the noise of the fight just in time to see Sparky come flying up the porch stairs and into the house. The other cat was running toward the chain link fence  on our property line, climbed over, and disappeared into our neighbors yard. I know that this was not Jim's cat, because Jim doesn't like cats, and has never had one, as long as we have been neighbors.

.Sparky was bleeding from a wound on her right hind quarter, and came into the living room and started to lick the wound on our throw rug. She was bleeding from what looked like a puncture wound. It was evident that she was really hurting. I tried to pick her up in order to assess the damage, but she hissed, and ran into the bedroom, and under the bed. We got her out, and were able to get her into the bathtub and rinse her wound with some luke-warm water. We wrapped her in a towel and I sat with her in my chair for two hours, before she again ran under the bed.

Yesterday we were able to get a quick appointment with our Vet, and he cleaned the wound and gave her antibiotics and a pain drug, that we must give to hear twice a day. She hates us doing this to her.

It breaks my heart to see my kitty hurting, and I will do anything, pay as much as it takes to get her healed. The problem is that she doesn't understand that we are trying to help her, and she fights us when we try to help, because the helping hurts her.

God feels the same way about us and our sinning. He has provided a means that will lead us to eternal life, but the process is not easy, nor is it pain free. He cannot force us to comply, We mus do it of our own free will.