Although I have not been posting, God is still very much at work in my life. I have still been reading my bible, and if I have not been enjoying the sense of revelation that I did before, I can still thank Him for the many other gifts He has been giving me. For one thing, rest. God used to wake me up between 5 and 5:30 and we’d spend some time alone together. There have been times when I rebelliously chose not to get up – it’s so easy to roll over and go back to sleep! But somehow this is different. Last week I was exhausted and discouraged. Since then, God has given me rest, the best sleep I have had in such a long time. It may not seem remarkable to have 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep to some people, but to me, it’s amazing. Followed by another 4 hours, it is practically miraculous. For the first time in years, I can get into bed and fall asleep within 15 minutes. I am feeling and thinking better than I have in a long time. This is a gift from God. He is blessing me with new clients for Three Cords, bailing us out of our personal financial morass, improving what was already a great marriage, and bringing the Man Of The House (MOTH) and I both closer to the Daughter Of The House (DOTH). Pretty remarkable all around. So where does cat worship fit into all this?
While it’s true that ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, and I know some cat owners who are walking a very fine line, I am not engaging in cat worship. I’m observing some behavior in my cats that is inspiring me to do a more in-depth study on worship which I will be posting on soon. My cats’ fur will be petted and rubbed. That fact is never in doubt. They come to me and rub their heads on my ankles, purring appreciatively in advance, with the full expectation that I will stop what I’m doing and pet them. If I fail to do this, they give me an indignant look, and then proceed to rub their heads on any and everything, including my smelly shoes if they are nearby. They just don’t care. Fickle creatures. But I have concluded some things… worship, like being petted, feels good. It’s what we were created for, and one way or another, we are going to do it. While the analogy fails in one sense because God would not refuse to let us worship Him – ah, but wait! What about this?
Mat 15:7-9 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, “This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
One example out of several I found where God decries what men call worship. True worship, worship without an agenda and with a clean heart, God will not refuse.
Joh 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.
Worshipping in spirit and in truth… I can’t do this without the Holy Spirit. I already have the Holy Spirit or I wouldn’t want to worship God. But to be filled with the Holy Spirit, a whole new level of worship and communion with God that I have not yet experienced, is what I’m looking for. Not worshipping God because it feels good to me like a cat being petted, but worshipping Him because I love, fear and reverence Him. Worshipping like a dog who bounds expectantly up to its owner, tail wagging. If the owner declines to pet him, the dog will lay down and maybe rest his head on the owner’s foot, expressing, “It’s okay if you don’t want to pet me right now – I’ll just wait here nearby.” The dog doesn’t go around and satisfy the urge to be petted by rubbing his head all over the furniture. He’s loyal – it’s the Master or nothing at all. That’s what I want. No more cat worship.
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