Went to the zoo today with the family, it was great. But I couldn't stop thinking about something. Here we are just 30 feet away from a tiger that would rip you to shreds in the wild. We would be lunch. But he was kept in his cage and he couldn't hurt anyone. Here is a powerful hunter, the lion, the bear, the tiger, even the snakes behind the glass, with tons of kids watching them. Just like they were harmless. Their eyes were hollow, they just laid around or walked in circles. They weren't doing what they were meant to do, hunt, roam, live outside of bars.
But isn't this a great picture of what most Christians are like? We are penned up by our sin that so easily entangles. Even though we are made to do mighty things, here we are walking in circles or sleeping all day in our cage.