Get a Dog!

I was contemplating weighty things this morning… thinking about what life becomes when this world ends and heavens reign begins.

What will we do all day, every day…for eternity? What if it is boring?

Then I thought about my dog ‘Max’. They say if you want to know who loves you more, ‘your wife or your dog” lock them both in the trunk of a car for two hours and when you open it you will know for sure by which one is happy to see you.  Now, that may be intended to be humorous but it also drives home a point.

If you do not or have not ever had a dog you will have to take the rest of this on faith… and I feel bad for you because until you have owned a dog you have not physically experienced unconditional love. I have never been able to spend so much time with my dog that he didn’t want to be around me any more. In fact it is always my decision to end our time together because there is never a time when my dog does not want to interact with me or just be right beside me sitting enjoying company together. It doesn’t matter to him what we do as long as we do it together. His entire world revolves around me, it is as if it ends when I leave and picks back up again when I return. My son put his iPad on record to watch Max to see what he did while we were gone for the day… can you guess what it was? After we left he ran to the window to see us off, then he became visibly upset… and for the remainder of the time he either slept or moped until we came back. And then of course his whole world brightened when we returned.

I think of my own life and how much brighter it is when I know God is physically involving Him self in my life, how I feel when close to Him, praising Him, loving Him. It really is kind of like a high! He is our creator, and because He made us He also knows exactly what will satisfy us. He made us in such a way that it is only Him that brings complete wholeness and satisfaction to our lives. And just like my dog. When we are together nothing else matters. Not what we do, where we are or where we are going… just that it is together.

Judging from the emotions and joy I feel when I am worshiping, loving or just spending time with God (and we are not really physically together yet)… I got a funny feeling that when we are finally physically with Him, it will not matter what we are doing, where we are or where we are going, as long as we are with Him.

And then, and only then will we be completely and totally satisfied. For eternity!