SILENT WATCHDOGS
Today's reading: Isaiah 56-61
"For the leaders of my people--the Lord's watchmen, his shepherds--are blind to every danger. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming." Isaiah 56:10 NLT
We have livestock guardian dogs on our little farm.
They are big. They are intimidating. They are barkers.
A run away leaf flitting from our neighbor's yard to our own will send them in to fits of barking.
A bird flying over their 'assigned area' will lead them to alarming us of the intruder.
Someone walking (for exercise) down the road will cause them to alert us to 'imminent danger'.
And the neighborhood cat walking just outside of their boundary lines--what a commotion!
Unless they are sleeping.
And when they are sleeping, nothing rouses them.
They slumber. They snore. They drool. They stretch out. They lay oblivious to the world at large.
Are we like that, Church?
We are spending our time barking at the wrong things--and sleeping through the issues God wants us to be fully aware of?
Are we raising our voices to indecencies committed against us while the world is slipping off into a dark, hot, God-less eternity?
Are we arguing gray areas and not spreading the Gospel message?
Are we silent watchdogs worn out from the wrong fight?
