Devotions With Your Cat

1.1.2. A CAT’S INCREDIBLE JOURNEY 


1 Corinthians 9:24 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” 


Sugar the cat ran an incredible race of 1,500 miles to get back to her original owners. 
Her persistence and endurance were astounding. The website 
http://www.kittens-lair.net/history-and-famous-cats/amazing-true-stories-about-cats.html tells Sugar’s astounding story: ‘ One of the nicest stories about a cat's power to travel or remember long distances... is about Sugar. Sugar was a cream-colored, part-Persian who was living with a family in Anderson, California. When her family had to move to Oklahoma they felt that Sugar was just too afraid of cars to go through such an ordeal and so they very reluctantly left Sugar behind with a neighbor. Fourteen months later, in Oklahoma, a cream-colored semi-Persian cat leaped on the shoulder of the woman from Anderson, California while she was working outside her new home. Although the woman thought the cat looked like Sugar, she had her doubts. Would a stray cat jump happily onto the shoulder of a stranger? Not likely. But it also seemed unlikely that a cat could cross half a continent of desert and mountain ranges! All doubts were ended, however, when she petted Sugar and felt the unique bone deformity that defined Sugar's left hip. And then she knew for sure it was Sugar when she called the old neighbor in California. Not only did the neighbor remember Sugar's unique bone formation, but she told the Anderson family that Sugar had stayed with her for only two weeks before disappearing! Sugar travelled more than 1,500 miles through land even a mountain lion would find harsh...to a place she had never been....to get back to the family she loved and missed.’ Sugar the cat is a shining example of endurance and perseverance -- qualities which we as Christians should develop. Paul says in Hebrews 12:1 : “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”. Are you focused on finishing the race and getting rid of hindrances to your spiritual life? When the going gets tough do you quit or do you look to God for strength?