My cat always follows me around, meowing, rubbing up against my calves. She wants me to pet her or scratch her head. Basically, giving her attention in general is kind of what she lives for. However, I'm busy sometimes. I have to go to work, I have to go to school, go hang out with my friends. She can't understand why I have to leave the house or that I want to sleep in sometimes (instead of being clawed in the face).
I feel like the owner-pet relationship is very similar to one that we practice with God. In our walk, we often-times enjoy reveling in God's wondrous plan and all that He has in store for us. God is happy to bring us joy and peace, yet His goals stretch much further than ourselves and I feel like I've forgotten that at times. God is not only concerned with edifying myself, but the entire world, all of the elect. If I continue to pray selfishly, God please let me get this job, please let me get this A, please let this girl be the one, etc, then I will be very much like my cat. I will keep calling out for His attention and not understand that His existence and being are on such a different level that I cannot even comprehend.
He has much more planned in the masterpiece of Creation than my lowly life. I pray that my heart is one that yearns to pray for others, realizing the depth of God's grace not only for myself but for all the elect that were, are, and are yet to come.
