The Grace Dog and the Law Dog
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★HAVE you ever seen a person with a big dog on a leash and the dog is dragging the person or the person is pulling the dog? That is the way a lot of us are living our Christian lives; we’re living it on a law leash. Stop that! Don’t do that!
Come here! Read your Bible! Pray! Go to church!
There is nothing wrong with those things. It’s just that a leash is jerking us around. But have you ever seen a dog walked by its master without a leash and without ever leaving its master?
The person walks and the dog walks. The person stops and the dog stops. He doesn’t need a leash because he’s got a good relationship with the dog. You can always tell the difference between a grace dog and a law dog when you walk into a house.
A law dog has its tail tucked underneath. Its master intimidates it. It’s afraid of its master. It is a miserable dog.
But a grace dog’s tail is wagging when its master comes home because there’s a relationship there.
The point
A vivid contrast between living by law (like a dog jerked by a leash, fearful and miserable) and living by grace (like a dog trusting its master, free and joyful), illustrating the freedom and relationship that grace provides.