How has society come to this? We care more for animals than we do for human beings!!! Think about the past few years; more than once I bet you can remember someone committing murder and getting away with it. Remember OJ??? Yet, if someone hurts or abuses an animal there is no mercy whatsoever. Now, don't get me wrong... I do NOT approve of mistreating animals; I love them, especially the baby ones. But, people are FAR MORE VALUABLE THAN THEM!!!! Take a few minutes and read these selections from the Bible and suddenly the above sign will begin to take on a new meaning....
WEB: Genesis Chapter 1
[24] God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. [25] God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
[26] God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” [27] God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. [28] God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” [29] God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. [30] To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
[31] God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
WEB: Matthew Chapter 6
[24]
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. [25] Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? [26] See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
WEB: Isaiah Chapter 29
[16] You turn things upside down! Should
the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say
about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of
him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
WEB: Isaiah Chapter 5
[20]
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
WEB: Matthew Chapter 6
[24] “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. [25] Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? [26] See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
Human beings are the pinnacle of God's creation. Animals were made for man, NOT the other way around!!! God has made everything and decided how things should be, so why, oh why do we want to change things??? When God says "yes", Satan says "No" and its up to us to decide who we want to listen to. Remember, don't be a fence sitter, you might fall on the side where Satan is and HE will really gobble you up. Believe it, because its true!!!