The Rat

There once was a rat named Felix. Felix was like any other rat really. He was naturally a rotten nasty creature. He dwelled amongst other rats. They scavenged for food, eating anything they could find. Felix particularly liked to hang out around the garbage bins in an alley. He would gorge himself daily on whatever garbage he could find. He was dirty, rotten, nasty, and quite ill tempered honestly. Felix and his cohorts went on living this life for quite some time.

One day, while Felix was doing his usual, he happened across the most beautiful mouse he had ever seen. This mouse didn’t look quite like the others. He was enormous and powerful. “Who are you?” Felix asked. “I am Theos” replied the mouse. “I see that your are living amongst all of this garbage. How would you like to come to my home and have some cheese?” “You have a home?” asked Felix. Theo replied, “My house is the most beautiful place you have ever seen. I have mountains of cheese and any other food you can think of! All you have to do is come with me and you can have all the riches you could ever want!” So Felix followed Theos to His home and his life was forever changed. Even though Felix felt like he didn’t deserve the riches that Theos gave him, he was forever grateful to Theos for His gift.


Ephesians 2: 1-10
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.