Carnivorous Chickens?

"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15)

"Stupid bird!"  Those were my wife's precise words recently as she read once again the words "Vegetarian Fed Hens" on the outside of the carton of fresh eggs she had just purchased.  You see, anyone who knows Bev knows that she and vegetables are not on the best speaking terms!  In fact, when I pointed out to her that all chickens are fed vegetable products, her response was "Not mine!"  Carnivorous chickens?  Really?  I suppose that in her world such critters might just exist!

We all love to play by our own rules, don't we, beloved?  It is a trait of human nature as long as there have been human beings that we insist on deciding what is best for us and by what standards we will live our lives.  Now in all fairness we have become civilized to the point that we do submit to some degree to people of authority over us.  After all, lots of folks have bosses, children have parents, and all of us as citizens live under the watchful eye of Big Brother!  But in our heart of hearts,we would rather have everything go our way, have everyone around us dance to our tune.

Jesus blew such a common trait of human nature to smithereens when He proclaimed to His disciples that if they truly loved Him, they would obey Him.  And I am pretty sure that it is safe for us to assume that by "My commandments" He really meant all His commandments.  No wiggle-room, no side doors, no back windows out of which to climb.  Just straight forward, dead-ahead obedience, walking moment by moment in the will of the Lord.  Jesus did not chew His cabbage twice on this point: the only real evidence that we even have a relationship with Him will be the degree to which we obey Him!

You see, beloved, being a Christian is not really a complicated issue at all.  It means simply that moment by moment and day by day, I discover what the Master's will is for my life and then I go out and do it.  Just do it.  Otherwise, you are going to find yourself lost in that nether-world inhabited by unicorns and carnivorous chickens.  You gotta love her!

Ron