Wylie
God will prepare everything for our perfect
happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be
there. Billy Graham
I wrote the
following devotional several years ago.
This week our dog of 16 years died and I am heartbroken. He was my companion during my battle with
cancer and he always made me laugh. He
gave unconditional love and so my dog’s love was an example of what we can
expect from God every day. I thank God
for giving me so many years with my four legged companion Wylie.
Devotional dated
November 22, 2013
My dog is mad at me. The last few days my husband and I have been
trying to figure out why. There are a
few options. Any time I go out of town
and leave him he acts differently when I return. Here is an example. When my husband and I went on our honeymoon
my dog stayed with my parents. When we
returned he ran up to my husband and wagged his tail and howled. He ignored me. He wouldn’t even look at me. If I tried to look into his eyes he would
turn his head the other way.
So this week I bought his food but I switched
it to a different kind that he normally likes.
So I get up every morning and feed him.
I put his food on a paper plate.
Every morning this week after he eats he goes into the kitchen, picks up
the paper plate that his breakfast was on and carries it into the living
room. He then proceeds to shred the
plate into tiny pieces all over the living room floor. Yesterday Jerry bought him the other kind of
dog food he likes because we thought he might be mad because I switched dog
food on him.
Today I figured out that he is just mad at me
for leaving him for a week. I know, you
don’t have to tell me my dog is spoiled.
When he is ready to go to bed he goes into the bedroom and starts
talking. He is a creature of habit and
if I don’t go to bed the same time every night he will sit in the bedroom and
make noise. He doesn’t bark he just
grumbles every 15 minutes or so. My husband and I will be sitting on the couch
in the living room and he will be in the bedroom grumbling.
My dog is 12 years old and set in his
ways. He makes me laugh more than any
other dog I’ve owned. He has an internal
clock that goes off in the evening when it is time for his treats. He sits in front of my husband and does the
stare down. I kid you not, he doesn’t
blink he just stares. He also shakes
your hand for treats. The thing is I
know my dog loves me unconditionally. He
may give me the cold shoulder when I leave him but he still loves me.
One day my dog will pass on and I will be
heartbroken because he has been with me through many of the trials in my
life. When I had cancer he would curl up
at the end of the bed and wouldn’t leave my side. He always gets over being mad at me but I can
always depend on him to love me without fail.
God loves us the same way. If He didn’t He would not have let His only
Son die on a cross for our sins. A
blameless son died for a sinful world.
Do we disappoint God just like I disappoint my dog? Yes we do, over and over again we disappoint
our heavenly Father. The thing is He
keeps taking us back even when we fail Him.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, my dog often gives me a picture of what Your love is
like. I praise You for loving me even
when I don’t deserve it. When I fail You
are still waiting for me to return to You.
It is hard for me to comprehend a Father who loves a sinner like me
enough to allow His Son to die on a cross so that I could be redeemed. Your
love is amazing.
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