SATO

This was my dog Sato he was a cream colored male labrador, He passed away several months ago when he was tragically hit by a bus as he crossed the street from the farmhouse of my friend who was entrusted to care for him when I moved to the United States. I remembered Sato to be a very loyal dog who knew who his master was. He wagged his tail whenever he saw me and Pajie (my eldest daughter) whenever we took him out of his cage to play with him. He loved going inside my airconditioned room to cool himself from the very humid weather. We enjoyed playing with him and he in turn enjoyed being around us. Sometimes I would argue that dogs are better than humans when it comes to relationships in terms of loyalty, love and affection. They can never cause you any pain except when they get sick or when you loose them. But alas! they are just animals, lesser creatures than men. That being said we are not dogs either but in the manner of loyalty we should always have the wisdom to know who our real Master is in all theological and spiritual aspects. There is no such thing as neutrality in our relationship with the Lord. No compromise, no gimmicks, no story telling under false pretenses within a cofee shop setting just to "win people to the side of truth" even if it requires twisting the genuine truth to the point of leaning towards liberal theology. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life ... there are no two ways about it, make no mistake! To teach a different truth that contradicts how the Word Of God defines it so there could be and appearance of neutrality and can be viewed as attractive, this in order to gain more church goers is erroneous at best and should never be adhered upon. May we all use our God given discernment...

I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So because you are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold-I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Revelations 3:15-16