A tranquil and contented scene is shattered by the growling and menacing sounds of my “big” dog.  Something outside has him upset and in a flash he is barking, growling and clawing at something outside our front door.  I jump up from my desk chair and run downstairs to investigate what or whom has my “big” one so upset.   As I come near to where he furiously barking; he senses my presence and quickly puts himself between me and the “offending” scene.  He physically is barring my access to that part of the front room.

So I stop pushing and he returns to the window; but he calms.  The hair and snarl are once again lowered to their soft and content position.   He turns his amber eyes to me and wags his tail.  The perceived offense has left and he is once again my sweet “big” dog.  I check the scene outside and see nothing that should have caused such a reaction from him.  I give him a good pat and scratch and return up ther stairs to finish my work.

As I wait for my inbox to once again load, I wonder what had my big dog so upset?  What could have caused such a reaction?  What was so menacing that he felt the need to protect me?  I realized sometime later that a meter reading person was in the area.  They must have crossed to close to the house and the big dog was saying hey, you are about to cross a line and I am here to protect my Master and her house.

As I traveled further down that thought road, I realized that I too have just recently done the same thing as my big dog.  I recently saw a preview for up coming movie called “Hamlet 2″.  It is one of those so called comedy parodies. The ones that has such low standards that it is obnoxious and crude.  Normally, I do not pay much attention to those type of movies, BUT in this one, the trailer crossed a line that took me instantly to almost being sick to completely Barking MAD.  It depicted a scene in which a so-called high school drama play, did a sketch of Jesus.  I don’t even want to go into it.  It mocked my Jesus.  It mimized his sacrifice, to a overly bad and offense musical sketch.  I WAS HORRIFIED!  How dare they attack my Jesus like that.  I immediately prayed for their offense to my Jesus.  I apologized to Him, because of this world has such derespect for him.  I wanted to protect him from the scene – just like my big dog did for me.  I wanted to keep Him away until things are alright again and secure. But the truth is I can’t.  I can’t make it go away or protect Him from it – no matter how much I want too.

My hearts eye plays the rest of the scene like this:  As I turn from the offending scene and as my blue eyes looked into His; I see a sheen of hurtfulled tears in his loving eyes.  He reached down and held my face and said, “I know, I know.”  He then turned and returned to His work and I could only watch after Him and sigh with a heavy heart.

I am still BARKING MAD and I am writing my local movie theaters demanding that they do not show this film within their theates.  I am telling others, any who will listen, to not support this film.  Because we all know, if some other religions “deity” was depicted in such a manner; there would be protest in the streets and threats of violence.  I love their passion and their zeal for there god.  They do not care that the world views them as MAD.  They wear it a badge of honor.  So what about me??? Do I love my Jesus so much that I am willing to risk being MAD in the eyes of the world to stand up in defense of my Master?  I do so pray I am!

MAY I BE BARKING MAD IN DEFENSE OF MY JESUS!!!!!  In the darkness one bark of a dog can be heard for miles.  It is carried and then another bark is heard.  It joins the other and together they are carried.

BARK, BARK,….   Join me and start BARKING!