1.27-Does God care when our beloved pets die?

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1.27--Does God care when our beloved pets die?

I still remember the hurt I felt when I had to put our 17 year old Chelsea cat down because she had gotten old enough to start causing serious battles with our young grandson.  There was a grief that was not completely understood by me then and even now.

I have had friends lose beloved pets and I didn't know what to say at the time and still don't.

What I do know is that Jesus said that God is aware of it when a small sparrow falls to the ground.

To comprehend the love and awareness God has for us and our concerns is hard to grasp.

I read an article that pointed out that our love for pets may be a way to teach us the love God has for us as His creation.

I like what Karen Prior wrote:


Animals show us what our own fragility looks like before God. When we mourn these lesser creatures, we taste, I think, a bit of God’s sorrow over us in our human frailty. When we love fellow humans, we love as equals. When we love an animal, we bring with that love all the might and grace of one both in and above the world of that creature. It is like the love God has for us, with all the joy and grief we bring him. As human is to divine, so animal is to human. I think perhaps we are no more like God than when we love an animal.
 


Matthew 10.
28 Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in [a]hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a [b]cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

2 Corinthians 8.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

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