I was speaking to a friend just recently. As I was speaking to him I asked how the family dog was doing. The reason that I asked this is because I knew that the dog in question had (and still does have) a bit of a nervous disposition. Because of this nervous disposition, my friend was/is very protective of the family dog.
This protectiveness of the dog, if left unchecked, could lead to the dog becoming even more nervous. I’ve seen it before on the TV programme, “Dogs behaving badily”.
The scernio can kind of go, the dog is a bit nervous, the owner tries to protect the dog from anything that makes the dog nervous. The dog sees the owner being concerned about….. So then the dog thinks, “My owner doesn’t like that. Is that something else that I need your steer clear of of as well?”
The more the owner tries to protect the dog, the more the owner can make the dog nervous, of all things.
When the dog whisper (expert) comes in, he then basically takes the owner through the process of, you the owner are doing this all wrong.
You need to give your dog, your confidence, whilst exposing it to the things of the world that make it nervous.
The dog may well start with a nervous disposition, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. What the owner feeds the dog, will have a great impact on how happy the dog will end up being.
If the dog is fed nervous energy, then the dog will become more nervous, but if the dog is fed confidence, then the dog can be slowly weaned off of its nervousness. It might always be a slightly nervous dog, but it doesn’t have to be ruled by it’s nervousness.
As I was speaking to my friend, I think that I said something along the lines of, “As we can draw confidence from Our Heavenly Father, so you need to bring a source of confidence to your dog.”
I can see this to be a truth for a nervous dog, and I can also see it as a truth for us who might be nervous of something that we might need to go through.
We have a Heavenly Father who Loves us and is for us. As such we can call on His Strength and His Confidence, if we find that we are running a bit short and in need of an extra boost.
Just as a nervous dog can draw confidence from a confident owner, so we can draw our our strength and confidence from The Lord God Almighty, who Is All Powerful and is Able to help and support all, who call on Him.
Isaiah 40:28-31
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Wannabe Christian Doorman 