Awhile back I was watching a TV program on training hunting dogs. The trainer was nationally known and his dogs took top honors in many trials. But still, there were some that just didn't get it. They could come from the best lines and be given an inordinate amount of time, but nadda. They are trained with other dogs so they are mentored. Zip. He tossed out a phrase that has stuck with me; "this dog won't hunt". Today God applies this phrase to us.
Psalm 78 speaks clearly that we are (the human race) like a dogs that just won't hunt. We may get excited in our kennel when we get to the woods. Our ears may perk up when we hear ducks. But that's all she wrote. We came from the best line (made in the image of God), we were given the best trainers (the Prophets) and the best workout (the Law) but still we didn't listen. "In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; they did not believe...they would flatter him with their mouth, lying to them tongues; their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant" (32, 36).
Yet God persisted in loving his litter. And he persists in loving us when we do the same. He won't sell us off.
God did a new thing that no one imaged. You see it's true that you can't teach an old dog a new trick, so God made us old dogs into a new dogs.... dogs that can indeed hunt.
Did you see how he does it? We are made new when we are drawn into Christ through His resurrection. God made a new blood-line as it were via the blood of Jesus. The old blood-line of Adam led to death. New dogs hunt, old dogs don't/
When we have faith to believe that God can do this (as we should since we have the proof of the resurrection) we start to hunt...and live faithful lives. Then we are given the Holy Spirit to train and lead us in all righteousness.
Which blood-line do you belong to? If you were taken to the fields, would you hunt? It doesn't matter if you get there first or last, just that you get there and have at it.
...are we lucky dogs or what?
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