God used a dog?

Someone sent me this clip, I wanted to send it out to you – even though I’m struggling a bit with it.

It’s about a dog. It’s been said that a dog is mans best friend.

I like dogs… If they don’t need anything, as long as they don’t bark,
as long as I can’t smell them, as long as I never hear them begging for
food.

I like dogs… As long as I don’t have to chase them down, as long as
they never lick me, as long as they live outside, as long as I never
have to collect the Easter eggs they produce in my back yard.

Watch this video… I LOVE this DOG! … Because he belongs to someone
else… And I’ll never have to pay a vet bill, or dig a chicken bone
out of his throat, or pickup dirty diapers that were once in my trash
bag in the garage, or strategically put on fragmented underwear that
were terrorized off the clothes line… Man, I LOVE this DOG!!

In the past, God has used shrubbery, donkeys, people, fire, clouds, and
floating ax heads as a means to communicate and reveal himself to us.
I never would have fathomed or considered this… But God used this
dog in the video to show me something today.

This dog was discontentedly penned up with his buddies, and creatively found a unconventional way out of his confine.

The Lord began to bring some thoughts to mind that are obstructions for
me. Some of them I have given up on and just settled in to make the
best of never being let out. He brought other thoughts to mind of some
impossible challenges I’m facing that I couldn’t see any way out of.

Then He did a history lesson with me, and began to bring to mind all
the impossible situations he walked his people out of. Fiery furnaces,
global flooding, a sea in front of me and an army following behind me,
one soldier abandoned by his brothers at arms to take a stand against
an entire military force.

This little dog instilled some faith in me today, to trust that God is
the way maker – ESPECIALLY when it seems like there are NO other
options afforded me.

“I can’t… He never said I could. He can… He always said he would.” -Ian Thomas