When my niece and her huband and family go on vacation, I'm usually the one who goes out to help take care of her animals. I rather enjoy it except she has a cow who is a bit moody. She isn't a sweet lovable milk producer nope she sometimes acts like she wants to cause me harm. Can you imagine , "I'm so sorry for your loss. How did your wife die?" Oh she got trampled by a cow. Somehow that just seems so wrong. It just so happened that the last time I was taking care of her that we were to get a very bitter cold streak. I needed to pen her in the barn which meant visions of trampling were dancing in my head. I got her in and I shut the barn door. Well I had water her. I open the door; she is swinging her head around, making a weird noise, and then she put her head down towards me. Honestly, I'm doing all this for her benefit!!! Why can't this bovine get that in her head? No worries, she and I both survived and she was safe and sound. I left the barn and the Lord brought to mind how many times He asks me to do something and I act just like her. He points out something in our lives and tells us it needs refined or removed. Instead of seeing it as a loving heavenly Father taking care of us we are like that crazy cow and we want to fight to keep it, after all we may even enjoy our sin. God warns us of being double-minded. Oh we come Sunday with our Bible and all the catch phrases but Monday through Saturday we live like the world. Pastor Chris preached "The Curse of Double-Mindedness" on 2/24/19 on this very topic. Let's strive to be less like a cow and more like a sheep :-)
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