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When he first came to live with our family, he was about 18 months old. He was too young for one of the children’s home cottages, so my parents brought him home to our farm house.
For many years we had an old couch in the den that had a hole in the back. Almost like a magnet, our innovative little resident was drawn to that hole from the very start. Daily he would reach his little hand into that couch cavity and pull out some stuffing, and then with his fist clinched tight, hold his prize throughout the day! Somehow, someway, this daily allowance of stuffing rewarded our new toddler with some sense of security.
I don’t know how old my adopted brother was before he quit foraging into our old couch, but his story reminds me of where true security can be found. (And it’s not in a fistful of stuffing!)
“And if you give yourself to the hungry, and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will become like midday. And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.” Isaiah 58:10-11
When one’s hand is open to the needy, God will guide, satisfy and strengthen! Now that’s security, not stuffing! God is indeed good all the time!