David Referred To His Enemies As A Pack Of Snarling Dogs!!!

• Did you know…Thirty-nine percent of American households own at least one dog.

• Did you know…Over $99 billion will be spent on pets this year in the United States alone.

• Did you know…According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, 74 percent of dog owners consider their pet as a child or family member.

• Did you know…God made dogs for us to have as companions and helpers, and for the pleasure and happiness they give us.

• Did you know…Dogs depend on us for everything. They yearn to bring us pleasure and to feel that we love them. Is that not how God wants us to be toward him?

• Did you know…Dogs want to be close to us. They will curl up at our feet even if the bare, hard floor is not as comfortable as their favorite cushion. They jump up when they see us because they want to be as close to our faces as they can get.

• Did you know…Dogs try so hard with head-twisting, ear-twitching effort to understand words we speak to them in a language that is not their own. Their faces are so amusing when they are trying to understand what we are saying.

• Did you know…Our motives and values are beyond a dog’s ability to understand. They are puzzled that we are upset over a chewed shoe or a hole dug in the yard. To a dog, these are good things.

• Did you know…The word dog is God spelled backward.

I have said all these nice things about dogs to prepare you to say bad things about dogs.

But before I say these negative things about dogs, I wanted you to know I LOVE DOGS AND CATS…why shouldn’t I, THEY ARE PART OF GOD’S CREATION, And I believe the closer we get to God our love for His creation grows!

Illus: Every time I see these tv commercial wanting people to send money to help abused animals and I see dogs and cats that have been abused I cannot help but to wonder how any human could be so cruel.

Illus: There are heartless people who will place a dog or a cat that is helpless and dependent on them, put them in their car and drive down some deserted road and drive off leaving them there.

I believe God put these people are in the same category of an individual leaving a helpless baby on someone’s doorstep!

More than once I have picked up abused animals on the roadside and carried them to my home to provide them a home.

HOWEVER, GOD’S WORD AND LIFE ITSELF teaches us some negative things about dogs.

Such as a ….

• Mail man

• Insurance salesman

• Paper boy

• UPS Delivery person

• Milk man

knows when they pull up in front of a house and see a sign on the fence that says, “Beware of the bad dog”, that sign means exactly what it says…“BEWARE OF THE BAD DOG!”

But there are a lot two legged bad dogs we need to beware of also.

We can see that in the life of King David in the Old Testament when KING SAUL out of JEALOSY tried to destroy him.

Look at Psalm 59 is found in that passage of scripture in 1 Samuel 19:8-10 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand. And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled and escaped that night.

Jealousy is a horrible thing and have literally destroyed the lives of many.

King Saul was a man that had become full of JEALOUSY!!!

He did everything he knew to do to destroy David because of jealousy.

Illus: There is a fable of an eagle which could out fly another, and the other didn't like it. The latter saw a sportsman one day, and said to him:

• "I wish you would bring down that eagle."

• The sportsman replied that he would if he only had some feathers to put into the arrows.

• So, the eagle pulled one out of his wing. The arrow was shot, but didn't quite reach the eagle; it was flying too high.

• The envious eagle pulled out more feathers, and kept pulling them out until he lost so many that he couldn't fly, and then the sportsman turned around and killed him. (Moody's Anecdotes, pp. 44-45.)