All Dogs (Cats) Go To Heaven, or do they? I asked the question on a blog last week and the answers leaned heavily towards the positive. The general public opinion is; they do.
One lady said she was sure they did and that they would receive chocolate bones (which would not hurt them) and golden bowls, and that cats would be their friends.
My wife, however, said she hoped they did not go because I already spend more time with Zeus, the Lab, than I did with her.
The opinions, I suspect, are from a hopeful overflow of our love affair with animals while we are here on earth. No valid scripture was produced, nor is any really available. So we only have hope.
Despite the storyline of the 1989 movie, heaven is a static place: there is no going back and forth as Charlie B. Barkin did in the movie. Where ever we end up, we stay.
More complicated, however, is the subject of souls. Flesh and blood will not inherit the heavenly realms, so we need a soul. Animals, though they can love on a worldly level, often more deeply than us humans, unfortunately, do not have souls. The Holy Spirit has never entered the furry breast of Charlie or Zeus. Sorry Charlie.
But the overwhelming thought is this: it won’t matter. As our pastor said Sunday; we will have BFF’s who will end up in hell because they did not know Christ. But, though we may or may not be aware of their absence, because of our love for the savior and because of the eternal presence that will surround us, we will be pretty much oblivious to who or what isn’t there with us.
Does that sound cold, or in any way undesirable? I hope not, for the love of Christ should, and must, overshadow everything else in both this life, and the next. I hope it does for you.
Is what I just said a fact, or am I dogmatic here? No, I just have hope. It’s all about where, and in whom, your hope is based. Mine is in Christ Jesus.
My hope is built on nothing less,
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
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