Subduing the Earth

Last night as I was driving home I had the opportunity to subdue the Earth. More specifically, to subdue every creeping thing. I was driving home when my headlights saw something in the middle of the road ahead. They had shined upon a poor, twitching, helpless, rodent only seconds too late. Thud! That was it for poor Ralphie Roadkill, his empty, hairy life was over for eternity. What could I do really? I was driving 60-ish, it was late at night. Besides, I have a personal conviction that I will not try and put my life (or my passengers lives) in the path of danger to save an animal. I have determined to plow through them like a starving man plows through an all you can eat buffet. This, of course is mainly based on Gen. 1:28 that says we should subdue and have dominion. And also, because I deem the life of people more important than wildlife. That's why I eat steak and chicken and the occasional duck, when given the opportunity.

Roadkill, according to Webster's, is defined as something that is killed on the road by a motor vehicle. (In case you were wondering). Well, friends, Ralphie is dead and along with him are his dreams to be the greatest rodent ever. He life was ruined because of Darwin's great theory of Survival of the Fittest, aka my car vs. rodent. The thing is we should be "plowing" through the rodents of this life just as easily. We shouldn't be held back by a defeated, powerless satanic army. We should always be subduing and having dominion. My encouragement to you this weekend is to overcome, you can do it. Imagine yourself in an unstoppable vehicle (read the Church) and dispossessing the enemy to take back what is RIGHTFULLY yours.

"...I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This DAY the Lord will deliver you into my hand and...all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." 1 Sam. 17:45, 46

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