Cat or Dog? Who are you trying to be like?

I looked out the window while doing dishes and saw the dog playing with one of our five cats and thought to myself, “I think our dog wants to be a cat.”

Then as God does with me, he spoke to me in that very moment and said,

What do you want to be?  Who do you want to be like?  How do you want to behave?

What kind of personality and characteristics do you want to have?  Are you a dog trying to be like a cat?

CARA- Embrace who I made you to be and celebrate who YOU ARE!  Stop trying to be like something or someone else!  I made you to be a “Cara”! 

Our dog knows nothing else but cats.  He is only around another dog when my dad’s dog comes to visit occasionally. Then I thought about what he is like when the dog comes around.  HOLY MOLY! He is SOOOO EXCITED!!! So excited he doesn’t know how to act, and it seems we no longer even know who he is because he is acting so differently, yet he is overflowing with JOY, as if this is WHO he is actually MEANT to be after all!

WOW!  If you always hang with the cats, yet you are a dog, and never look at anything different, it might seem like that is who you should be, it might even cause you to feel like something is wrong with you because the cats you are hanging out with are so different from how you are inside and out.  You may even find yourself trying to do things like a cat even though you are totally in a dog’s body!

 HOW AWKWARD! And wouldn’t that look funny! Dare I say we do this as woman??

We hang around with people who are NOT like us, who may not even have the LORD as their Savior.  Then we take those other women and compare our lives to them and wonder what’s wrong with us!  We ask ourselves, “Why can’t I keep up?  Why can’t I have what she has?   Why does it seem like she can do it all and I’m struggling to stay afloat?

1.)    The cat has a different PURPOSE than the dog!  Trying to be someone you are NOT produces an environment of LOW JOY, NO HOPE, and a constant striving to be someone/something you were NOT designed to be!!

2.)    You were never meant to be COMPARED to another woman! God made you exactly like YOU! FOR THIS TIME! FOR THIS PURPOSE!

3.)    If you want to embrace who you are in Christ, HANG WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO ARE SEEKING TO BECOME MORE LIKE HIM!

We are held to one standard and one standard only, to GLORIFY GOD!  TO WORSHIP HIM!

 Comparing is never good!  Since we are human beings it tends to happen from time to time, so I challenge you to change your perspective on this.  Rather than us cats looking to a dog and getting frustrated and sad because we can’t ever be like that dog, how about us cats look to other cats and ask GOD, How can I be more like that cat?  I like what I see. I like how she makes me feel.  I like how she loves you Jesus. Help me to be more like YOU Lord, cause I see that in her!!!  This is allowing others to draw us closer to be like JESUS rather than trying to be like another human being, which is NEVER the same as us. God made us each completely unique for our very own purpose.  Just like cats and dogs are both animals, they are very different creatures with very different personalities and character traits!

We CAN become like other woman we see who have what we want SPIRITUALLY!! DO WHAT THEY DO!

READ THE WORD! PRAY! RESPOND IN OBEDIANCE to the very thing THE LORD IS CALLING YOU TO DO!!!

IF YOU ARE A CAT! FIND SOME CAT FRIENDS WHO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD FOR BEING A CAT!

IF YOU ARE A DOG, FIND SOME DOG FRIENDS WHO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD FOR BEING A DOG!

 

MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL! BE LIKE CHRIST!  STRIVE TO MEET HIS DESIRES FOR OUR LIVES AND HE WILL BLESS US INDEED!