Cheetahs

"Zeus can run as fast as a cheetah!"  My daughter said emphatically.  I watched Zeus darting after rabbits.  If Zeus was really as fast as a cheetah, I had a feeling that there would be fewer bunnies in the briar patch.  Brer Rabbit certainly never had Brer Cheetah to contend with.

"No, Anna," I said.  "Zeus is quite a bit slower than a cheetah."

Zeus tries as hard as any cheetah does to run down a rabbit.  You can see it in his eyes as he darts forward, straining towards the escaping rabbit.  There is only one problem.  Zeus is a dog, not a cheetah.

There is no way for Zeus in his dog body to out race a cheetah in it's agile, cat body.

It strikes me that this is the problem that many people have when it comes to serving Christ.  They try and try to act like a Christian and all the while struggle mightily.

For, Christ did not come to make us better people.  He came to transform us.  He came to change us from the inside out.  As it were, to turn the dog into a cheetah.

Only then can we be Christ-like.  For at that moment, we are a new creation, made in His image and likeness.