Who Let The Dogs In?
- May 11
- 5 min read
A few years ago, a friend of ours was in need of a place to stay. After discussing the matter with my wife, we agreed that Jesus would never want us to deny someone a place to stay if we had the space to accommodate them. (Matt. 25:35) So, we began to make preparations to host our guest.
We cleared a room and a closet so our friend would have sufficient room to store their belongings. However, what we didn't think to accommodate for were their pets. They brought two dogs that were not tamed and almost put our own rental agreement at risk.
It didn't take long before we were getting a call from our landlord who wanted assurance that we were maintaining the cleanliness and standard of the house and upholding our rental agreement. Unfortunately, when it was time to collect our security deposit, due to the undeniable evidence of wild dogs running rampant in the house, we only received a portion of what we paid.
It is not hard to imagine the way a house would look if we let wild, untamed dogs run freely. But somehow, we do not have this same expectation in regards to the wild, uncontrollable Spirit of God.
8 The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 3:8 AMPC
It was a lost cause trying to make dogs who were meant to be raised outside conform to a life inside our home. Correspondingly, the Holy Spirit of God does not see this world as being its home. If the same Spirit that lived in the men and women of faith mentioned in Hebrews lives in us, we would not see this earth as being our home either.
14 Now those people who talk as they did show plainly that they are in search of a fatherland (their own country). 15 If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it. 16 But the truth is that they were yearning for and aspiring to a better and more desirable country, that is, a heavenly [one]. For that reason God is not ashamed to be called their God [even to be surnamed their God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob], for He has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:14-16 AMPC
We see this to be true with the family of Jesus. They thought that He was beside himself (crazy) because of the way He was talking and acting.
20 Then He went to a house [probably Peter’s], but a throng came together again, so that Jesus and His disciples could not even take food. 21 And when those [a]who belonged to Him ([b]His kinsmen) heard it, they went out to take Him by force, for they kept saying, He is out of [c]His mind (beside Himself, deranged)! 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebub, and, By [the help of] the prince of demons He is casting out demons. Mark 3:20-22 AMPC
If someone gets a new pet, everyone would expect for the house to not look the same. But why does someone accept Christ and we don't expect them to be radically different? No one was surprised when the dogs ripped up everything we held sacred. Why is it that we don't expect the Holy Spirit, that has never been tamed, to not create even more of a mess of everything that we at one point held sacred?
34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a [m]newly married wife from her mother-in-law— 36 And a man’s foes will be they of his own household. 37 He who loves [and [n]takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; 38 And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [[o]cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me. 39 Whoever finds his [[p]lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life. Matthew 10:34-39 AMPC
It's very interesting being born and raised in America. This is a nation that for centuries has called itself, "one nation under God." A question comes to mind, however: Which "god" have we been under?
It's interesting because we see that Jesus brought His own government on His shoulders. His Word tells us that all other governments will pass away, but the Kingdom of Heaven will reign forever. Thus, a questions arises: If Jesus knew that America would be "one nation under God," why would He bring His own government into the world? Or, perhaps He knew that America would actually be one nation under Epstein and the Kingdom of Heaven would be the only nation truly under God.
The truth is, when the Holy Spirit is truly running rampant amongst believers, according to biblical history, the governments of this world strongly oppose it. Therefore, if we have found ourselves in a religion that coexists with the governments of this world, it is because we are still serving the god of this world, ourselves.
As we look around, the current church of the West produces more children of the world than the countries that are controlled by "satanic" dictators. We go to war to relieve the oppressed nations of the world but a majority of the world's pollutions come from America itself.
9 Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. Matthew 24:9 AMPC
If our religion retains a friendly relationship with anything of this world, then we have found ourselves in something that has taken a stance as an enemy of God Himself.
6 But when they failed to find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, Acts 17:6 AMPC
Question of the day: Has your house being ruined by the presence of a holy God?
