My house seems to be a magnet for the neighborhood's stray cats. They seem to come from everywhere, probably because I feed them.
Cats are fast and agile and if they are chasing after something that scrambles up a tree, they can get into high gear and climb right behind them. They get can climb pretty high and sometimes get out on a limb.
I find it strange that while cats can climb up a tree, but it's rare to see a cat climb down. Everything about them seems made to climb up; they have claws on their feet and strong hind legs. They can climb down, it's just rare that they do; they usually just jump.
If they climb too high to jump to the ground; they just sit there.
Like cats, we often find that we have run ourselves up trees and we are sitting there, out on a limb. Like cats, we often just sit there, stuck.
When cats get stuck, we either climb up and bring them down or call the fire department. However, when we get stuck in depressed states in which we feel like a B.B. King blues lyric, nothing but the Lord can bring us down.
In our pity party, the voice of Christ speaks to us. If we listen we can hear him say, "Servant, come down out of that tree." Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Come down, let's have a little talk and work it out.
An old song says, "Jesus a little take with Jesus makes it right."
Think on this passage. Luke 19: 4-6 "And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. 5And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
If you've found yourself up a tree, don't jump, let the Lord talk you down.
Meow!
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