Cartoonology Devotional 03-26-10

Can't see this page?  Go to www.nlcbchurch.com/devotional.dsp   Share on Facebook Cartoonology Devotional 03-26-10 E. Larry Ross Cartoonology.  There is great theology in cartoons and comics. I have a friend who owns a beautiful, yellow Labrador dog.  He is big and can scare you when he barks, but he is really just a big baby.  He howls whenever he hears an emergency vehicle's siren.  Often he can hear it long before anyone else, and when he howls you know some kind of emergency vehicle will soon appear.  This behavior amuses me.  As you watch him howling, his demeanor and facial expressions change.  His howl is a long moaning sound.  He stretches out his long body as far as he can.  Although it amuses me, I also realize that the howling is just a reaction to the pain those sirens cause him, since dogs are so much more sensitive to high pitched, high decibel sounds than us humans.  I think of people when I hear that dog howl.  We humans also tend to react in varied ways to the pain that life's circumstances and situations bring us.  Sometimes those reactions can be very loud and long, and sometimes they can cause a certain kind of pain for others all around them.  It helps when we realize and understand the source and degree of the pain others are experiencing.  We are then able to offer sympathy, empathy and counsel that can help them get through it. There is one, of course, that understands completely and He can offer the best counsel of all, because He has suffered at the hands of many and for the sins off all men. Matthew 16:21 (NKJV) 21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.  03-26-2010 Visit the Pastor's blog at http://larryross.blogspot.com to see all previous Cartoonology Devotionals . To receive this devotional by e-mail, send a message to edrynn@verizon.net and ask for it.  Pastor Ross sends out the devotional several days a week. These devotionals are free for the using.  Share them with others.  I only ask that you let people know where you got them.  If you would like to contribute to our church's ministry, however, make your check payable to New Life Community Baptist Church and mail it to 1560 Oakwood Street, Bedford VA 24523.  Thanks and God bless.