There is Safety in Discernment

Something I have noticed over the years with dogs. When they need to go out during the day to do their business, they are noisy in letting us know, but during the night, if they must go out, they are very quiet as if they know there is danger in the darkness outside and they must remain unseen.

Where we live, we have coyotes come through, thankfully not as much as we used to, but they are still a threat to cats and small dogs.

 
We have had about 7 cats taken, but the one we have now is very smart, able to hide effectively from the coyotes. He comes in at night but is in and out frequently, day and night. One of our neighbors' small dogs was dragged off by a coyote.

We have had dogs most of our married life, and they are adept at discerning the character of people they have never known before. Most people they like, but on rare occasions, there is someone they do not like; they show this by their lack of ability to calm down in the presence of someone. It is clear they do not like that person and will not allow them to come close.

 
Sometimes people have this sixth sense too; they can sense something is off in someone, but they have been trained by their culture never to judge, so they ignore warning signs, even signs that come from the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

Often, people trust their culture instead of the Holy Spirit because of the lack of faith that the Holy Spirit from Christ actually exists, even if they would say they do. They have mixed their religion with pagan fantasy and believe in the Holy Spirit in words, just as they believe in Santa in words, but have no real trust in Him.

 
Our "cult...ure" places more importance on words and feelings than it does on wisdom from above. Many rules and unbiblical thinking take priority over what the Bible says, which is the very Word of Christ.

 
1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."

Hebrews 5:14 "But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil."

Philippians 1:9-10 "And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,"

Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

The sixth sense of animals to discern danger is an instinct God placed in them to keep them safe. In human beings, we have also been given a sense of danger that the culture has trained out of us through human rules and trust in one's own self instead of in God.

 
James 1:5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."

1 Corinthians 2:14 "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

The person who does not trust in Christ will lack this vital and life-saving discernment, but the one born of Christ will have it, and it will save them from many trials.