By Osa Mbonu-Amadi
Whenever a lion is strangling another animal, I always feel angry and wish I was there with a gun so I could shoot the lion and save the poor animal.
But on second, I also realize we are all vampires.
We humans also live on the blood and flesh of other animals. We kill the cows, goats, chickens, turkeys, fishes and other animals. We boil their fleshes and serve them nicely on our dining tables.
Oh, Lord! What a bloody world we live in.
Lately, I have been feeling sad about it. We are so unjust to one another – all we animals. Yes, we are all animals.
Should I then cease from eating meat? Is that possible? Even if it is possible, what about all the ones I have eaten since I was born? My body is made of the flesh of other lives that have been killed for me and which I have eaten.
Now, I look forward to that promise of our bible in Isaiah 11:6-11, where the Lord says:
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
“And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
For the Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left…
This is part of the reason Jesus is Lord.
