The Pill

I can hide it in a cookie.  I can hide it in an ice cream sandwich.  I can hide it in a hotdog.   But it doesn’t matter.  My dog can find her pill and spit it out. Whatever happened to just gulping food down like a normal dog?  This is serious.  She needs that pill.  I am going to have to resort to the old fashion way of gagging her with it and rubbing her throat. “Please” sure doesn’t work.

As I sat with her I wondered if God ever tires of trying to find ways to get into our brains the fact that we need Him.  If He blesses us, we take it thinking we deserve the good things and good times.   If He allows bad things to happen to us hoping we will come to Him in desperation, we blame Him for not caring.  I am sure sometimes He must think He just can’t win. And like me with my dog He thinks, “This is serious.  They need to accept the gift.”  Just as I think, “She needs that pill.”  I wonder if He ever resorts to the gagging method.  One thing for sure I will not give up and neither will He.  I love my dog.  God loves us.  And we sometimes have to take our medicine.

The Book of Jonah is a wonderful story.  When I was little I thought that story was about a fish.  As a man I know what the story is all about.  God never gives up on us.  He will chase us to the ends of the universe trying to get our attention.  For some strange reason He actually thinks we are worth the effort

Written by Roger Bothwell on October 15, 2009

Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574

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