1000 Gifts (Part 13): LOLBunny Edition

216.  God's sense of humor displayed throughout creation, even through the movements of a lowly bunny

I could seriously waste an entire day watching our bunny explore.  His curiosity, aerial acrobatics, and unadulterated adorableness keep me highly amused. This bunny reminds me that Satan is the ultra-serious, cosmic kill-joy, not God.  Creation testifies of God's fun-loving nature as he seeks our good pleasure.  I can imagine Him watching us as we make new discoveries or scientific breakthroughs which point to His brilliant design.  It must be like watching the ultimate scavenger hunt, with clues left under, above, and all through the earth to lead us to God's created treasure.  Sadly, the sin nature drives men to worship the creation, or even the hunt itself, instead of worshiping the Creator.

Here are a few pics of our bunny as he explored around our playroom this past week.

He absolutely loves this horse stall my dad made for me over 32 years ago for my horse figurines when I was a child.  Considering that his breeder recommended that we give him equine hay and equine bedding, I guess it's no surprise that he would enjoy a horse stall as well.

217.  God's perfect plan in placing me into such a loving adoptive home 

My dear Daddy worked diligently to build this stable from scratch as a surprise for me one Christmas, knowing how it would speak love to my heart.  Its old and dry rotting now, but I treasure it for the love it represents, a love that comes from Father God. 

The following photo makes me chuckle because this bunny took up residence in this stable without once considering that he doesn't quite fit in with the plastic horses occupying the other stalls.  There is no such thing as social awkwardness in our bunny's world.  

What doesn't belong?

218.  Social acceptance and perfect peace in our eternal home

Heaven will be filled with immense diversity.  People from every tongue, nation, ethnicity, and denomination will be present, albeit in glorified bodies, along with heavenly creatures like the angels, cherubim, and creatures which are so unlike anything we know on earth that Scriptures combined at least four different earthly creatures to describe them.  There will be no sin, no insecurities, no social unease, no thought of oneself whatsoever.

Isaiah 11

6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷ The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
⁹ They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

 

Our bunny spends all of his time indoors up on the 3rd floor where the kids keep most of their toys.  It's been funny to watch him check out all the stuffed animals.  Since his sense of smell is so strong, he quickly learned that if something looks like an animal and feels like an animal, it still isn't a real animal if it's stuffed with inorganic material inside.  So he probably thinks he's surrounded by a bunch of hypocrites.

 

219.  Christ's power to cleanse us from the inside out and change our hearts so that love compels us to surrender all to follow Him

In the spiritual sense, hypocrites are those who pretend to be true worshipers on the outside but are spiritually dead on the inside.   Basic human anatomy teaches that life is contained in the blood.  That's why God demanded shed blood for the remission of sins.  Jesus' shed blood for us gives us new life from the inside out.   He gives us a spiritual blood transfusion so that we may have new life on earth and eternal life with Him forever.  Praise Him for this matchless gift!