Even Dogs Eat the Crumbs

Well… not my dog apparently.  She’s too posh to eat the crumbs off the master’s table.  The Bible doesn’t know what it is talking about.  Just kidding. 
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Well, I guess not all dog’s are hardwired to eat any kind of fallen food.  It is funny, because I am trying to encourage my dog to eat the crumbs or eat whatever falls off the dinner table, but she never does it.  I encourage this mostly because it does help with the clean-up and it prevents me from getting on my hands and knees picking up what the kid’s messy eating. 

But no… she chooses not to eat the crumbs.  However, she will just stand there staring at you while you eat, drooling and hoping that I hand her something off of my plate.  Even if I throw some scrap of food at her to eat, once it hits the floor… forget about it… she will not touch it.

What the heck kind of high class, bourgeois dog do I have?  Just be a normal dog like what the Bible says, right?  Shoot… Ill eat the food off the floor if you aren’t going to eat it.  5 second rule, right?

Even when I trained her as a puppy, I never discouraged her from eating food falling off the table.  She honestly just doesn’t know what to do.  When food does fall off the table she just kind of stares at it and wait for me or someone to clean it up.  What’s funny is that even when I try to give her food that did fall off the table, she will ignore it!  She is a stuck-up dog man! 

I guess only fresh food for her.  Only the best for her!  And I guess that means I have to get on my hands and knees to clean up food mess off the floor. 

But I guess my dog Suzie trusts me to give her food.  She doesn’t feel the need to beg or eat whatever.  Also, Suzie is probably only looking for the best.  Nothing used or fallen I guess, I don’t know what she is thinking, I am not a dog whisperer. 

But shouldn’t we be like Suzie?  Why are we settling for crumbs of the table when it comes to how we live?  We do not deserve crumbs falling from the table.  We always deserve the best.  And to be honest the best always comes from God.  I truly believe this!  I think the world only offers us little bits of “stuff.”  And we somehow settle on being happy with the little bits of “stuff” that are given to us.  But God always offers us abundance and better living.  God isn’t giving you bits of “stuff” but God is giving you instructions on how to live your life that is based on mercy, love, and forgiveness.  God is also there to tell you to never live life ashamed because through His grace you are always loved no matter what.  And that should give you confidence to live life well. 

Never settle for crumbs off society’s table.  Get the full course and dessert from God.  Take what God is giving you.  That is love, comfort, peace, grace, and forgiveness.  Feel full and be healed so that you can live well.  Leave the crumbs on the floor and eat from the table of grace.  Trust in Him always.  

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