TRUSTING
LIKE A CAT

Topics: Assurance; Confidence; Provision; Trust

References: Psalm 9:10; Proverbs 3:5

When our cat, Clement of Alexandria, goes outside, he looks around as though it’s a jungle, and he is terrified. But when he comes in the house, he lies on the floor between the kitchen and the dining room—where we walk most frequently—and falls asleep in total trust. My wife, Kathy, or I could squash Clement’s head, but he trusts us.

Our cat lives in complete, total confidence in his human companions. Every time I see Clement just lying there, I say to myself, “That’s what Jesus wants me to do—to trust him.” The kind of trust the cat shows in us is the kind of trust the Lord Jesus Christ invites from us.

—Dale Bruner, “Is Jesus Inclusive or Exclusive?” Theology, News & Notes (October 1999)