The Twelve Days of Lucy!

It has been 12 days since I brought home my beautiful new puppy.  And it has been an amazing adventure so far.  This morning, she cried to get out of my bedroom, and did her business outside!  For fellow dog-owners, you know what a monumentally important accomplishment this can be.  She has also learned that I keep treats in my pocket, and that she gets one when she "sits" on command.

We named her Lucy which means "light." Of course, Jesus is the light, but Lucy also illuminates truth about our Creator.  In fact, she is teaching me so much about God, I have outlined my next book already.  I am going to title it, Puppy Love.

The first truth Lucy demonstrated for me is the beauty and delight of adoption.  Obviously, I am not Lucy's 'real' mommy.  But I adopted her from her birth mother, and I love her so much.  She has become mine, and I have become hers.  It is a commitment, a covenant, that we will be together always.  Our Heavenly Father has likewise adopted us.

"He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, 

in accordance with his pleasure and will—"

Ephesians 1:5

Lucy knows I am her parent, her pack leader, her master now.  She does not resent me for taking her away from her former life, she has thrown herself wholeheartedly into relationship with me.  She has adopted me as much or more than I have adopted her.  She will leap with reckless abandon into my arms, she trusts me completely to catch her.

We may know that God has adopted us as his children, if we have accepted Christ as our savior, but have we adopted Him?  Do we identify God as our Father, our Leader, and our Master?  Have we thrown ourselves wholeheartedly, without any reservation at all, into a full-on, full-out relationship with Him?  

When I ask myself that, I have to confess that I have room to grow in this area.  

Father, I confess I have not given myself over to you with the same reckless abandon that I see Lucy has given herself over to me.  Lord, let me be that picture of loyalty and unflinching trust that I should be, and want to be.  Father God, thank you for creating me to know you, to love you, and to bring you pleasure.  Thank you for adopting me into your family, and for loving me with unfailing love.  Lord I pray also for my readers, that they may also have the desire to fling themselves daringly into the center of your will.  

Thanks for visiting,

Love Darilyn