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Tuesday night the ladies Bible study group was over at our house, and I was on dog watch. Now Smokey is a good dog, most of the time. The problem is he likes, no let me rephrase that, he LOVES attention! If people come over Smokey runs over and jumps up on them. He has even been known to bark at visitors if they are standing and talking together and not paying attention to him.
So I took Smokey with me back to the computer room. What an ordeal! Smokey either sat or lay by the door and whined almost the whole two hours. I ran out of treats to keep him quiet in the first ten minutes. Once in a while he would come over and jump up in my lap and briefly be quiet, but he would inevitably go back over to the door and start whining again.
At one point I said to him, “What’s the matter Smokey, Daddy loves you!” But he kept right on sitting by the door and whining. Immediately I thought, “Oh, that must be how God feels about us!” He loves His children, but they want to “join the others”, and can’t stand being “cooped up” with their Lord who loves them for any extended period of time. Yet God longs to be with us!
Isaiah 30:18Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.
