A couple years have put distance between me and what happened to Alice (a blogger friend who said she was a Christian but now shows she is not) and I still at times wonder “Is it my fault...is there something I should have said, or something she said that I should have answered properly and didn’t because I wasn’t paying close enough attention...” and have done this over and over wondering if it was my lack of watchfulness that caused her to fall away...
This morning I was looking through my recommended YouTube videos and found this one. This describes the feeling very well. I still feel the pain...
Edit to add my interpretation of this “parable”:
I was pondering this that the Lord gave me this morning...the peacock felt trapped, wanted out of the cage...Alice felt trapped by the Lord, she didn’t want what He was offering to her, she felt it restricted her freedom...the peacock soared up in the air, fully relishing the new freedom, and even though Patara tried so hard to catch him, he wanted whatever perils that awaited him rather than be put “back into that cage”...
....and so it was with Alice. She didn’t have Jesus, she had a cage of her own making that she thought was Jesus...and she’d rather go to hell than back into her cage
This morning I was looking through my recommended YouTube videos and found this one. This describes the feeling very well. I still feel the pain...
Edit to add my interpretation of this “parable”:
I was pondering this that the Lord gave me this morning...the peacock felt trapped, wanted out of the cage...Alice felt trapped by the Lord, she didn’t want what He was offering to her, she felt it restricted her freedom...the peacock soared up in the air, fully relishing the new freedom, and even though Patara tried so hard to catch him, he wanted whatever perils that awaited him rather than be put “back into that cage”...
....and so it was with Alice. She didn’t have Jesus, she had a cage of her own making that she thought was Jesus...and she’d rather go to hell than back into her cage
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