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Cats are natural carnivores. They are designed in nature to eat rats, birds, snakes and things like grasshoppers. We had a professor in Veterinary school who said the best diet for a cat would be to put a bunch of rats in the food processor and feed that mix… muscles, bones, intestinal contents, skin and fur.
We see a lot of cats with metabolic conditions… obesity, pancreatitis, diabetes and urinary crystal formation. All this conditions are cause by feeding un-natural cat foods. Usually dry foods with grain based carbohydrates.
So why would we feed and un-natural diet verses a natural one? Because dry cat foods are cheap and most cats do okay on them. Emphasis on “cheap”
Christians have a lot of spiritual ailments caused by eating a diet of man made and smooth and popular and polarizing doctrines instead of those simple and understandable doctrines shared by God for his people.
I’ve never seen a “barn” cat who suffers from obesity and all the metabolic issues that I see in “house” cats. They have different diets… one is healthy and natural and the other is unhealthy. I make my living on unhealthy pets and business is good.
Maybe if we are having moral and spiritual problems in our lives the problem is what we are “eating”
If you went to a diet center and no one ever lost weight but stayed obese you would look for help in another direction wouldn’t you?
Similarly, if you visit a church and no one has been married very long and the children are out of control or the prayers are shallow and the singing is on life support or the preacher never quotes the Bible…
Maybe just maybe you should keep on looking.
I found out a friend of mine had, had a heart attack and was in treatment for it. He didn’t tell me… his wife brought the subject up. I told the wife to be careful to not look or smell too good because her husbands heart might not be able to take it. Lol.
I observed that my friend still smoked. I mentioned that smoking makes the blood hyper-coagulable and he could stroke out. He said… I take an Aspirin every day to prevent that.
I asked him if he had changed his diet any. He said he had a little bit but his wife said he had not. Sheepishly he said the heart medications took care of that for him.
This typifies a common notion that is going around among many. They don’t want to put in the work to be healthy and to have true health they want to rely on medicine and doctors to manage their unhealthy life style.
That’s kind of like the guy who decides to become a Christian and has all his nasty sins washed away but then does nothing to grow. Just relies on “God’s grace” and “prayer” and wears those things like a Badge of Honor. Never truly maturing in Christ. Never trying to develop the image of Christ in their lives and never equipping oneself with the full Christian armor.
To truly have good health, both physical and spiritual, requires some effort.
We might need to put down the spoon and step away from the table and start feeding and nurturing others. Just like Jesus did. Do that and you can live forever.
God designated some animals to be clean and others to be unclean.
A hog for instance would be one example of an “unclean” animal. Sheep would be an example of a “clean” animal.
God’s people could only sacrifice and eat “clean” animals. For God’s people to sacrifice a hog on an altar would be totally unacceptable.
In addition, God wanted a “clean” people so they could only eat “clean” animals. It was part of their “cleanness”. I can tell you with absolute certainty that Jesus our Lord and Savior never ate Pork. To do so would have made him “unclean” and he wasn’t “unclean”… he was perfect.
Maybe clean and unclean animals foreshadow God’s creation under his new covenant. There are “clean” and “unclean” humans.
Those who have been baptized and washed in the blood of Jesus Christ have become “clean” and pure like the “clean” Sheep. Those who are not are “unclean” like the filthy swine. Totally unacceptable to God and unacceptable to live with Him in the Heavenly places.
The good news for us is that although we once were all “unclean” Hogs we didn’t have to stay that way we could choose through God’s grace to become “clean".
Remember… there won’t be any Hogs in Heaven or even Hogs who have had a bath and are outwardly clean. Yopu can bathe a hog and put a ring in its nose but its still a hog. Only the transformed “clean” will be in Heaven.
When Julie and I moved to Corpus Christi in 1982 the congregation had two Elders… Jack Young and Carl Miller. Who they might have had before that if any I am not aware. Later Joe Henderson was made an Elder but then he moved off and then I think Jack moved and the congregation was without Elders.
July 20, 1997 - David Smitherman and Rob Perkins were appointed as Elders.
June 18, 2000 - Gus Cargile and Bill Chambers were added as Elders.
July 3, 2016 - Ricardo Baca added as an Elder.
June 21, 2026 - Shane Torno and Larry White added as Elders.
Our current Elders are Gus Cargile, Ricardo Baca, Rob Perkins, Larry White and Shane Torno.
