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Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.

—Amos 5:14

Animals are like good-and-evil meters. Have you ever noticed that? Animals respond to innate goodness and innate evil.

I had a Great Dane named Sophie who was the biggest, goofiest dog in the world. She was a comedienne with feet the size of my hands. This dog got her head stuck in garbage pails, sat on a chair like a human with her legs crossed, and howled musically every time I sang. Sophie was just a big cuddle bug and loved everyone.

Then, one day we were out walking, and a maintenance man from our neighborhood association approached us. He always gave me a creepy feeling, as if he were watching me. My spirit kept warning me, but I ignored the feelings.

When the man got closer, Sophie pulled ahead of me and stood between him and me. Her hackles raised, a deep guttural growl began, and she turned into a wild woman! The man froze. I thought my “gentle giant” was going to have this man for lunch. A few weeks later, I was told he was arrested for breaking and entering some of the homes in the neighborhood.

People have built-in good-and-evil meters too. The Holy Spirit in us tells us about others, but also ourselves: where we belong or what places we should avoid, which might be harmful. He doesn’t ever change those standards of the meter. He’ll never order us to drop our integrity standards because business is business. He doesn’t ever tell us to go into debt and not pay our bills to be closer to him. He does not ever tell us to be harsh to our children to make them better people. What he does tell us, that interior meter, is to seek good, always. And when we seek good, we find it.—d.o.