Raise an Infant to Your Cheeks

Author

Wes Schaeffer
July 09, 2020

From today’s reading…

I fostered them like one

who raises an infant to his cheeks;

Yet, though I stooped to feed my child,

they did not know that I was their healer.” Hosea 11:4

You and I are like the 8-year-old throwing a fit who decides to run away from home only to realize—after making it maybe two blocks—that it’s a big, cold, lonely world out there with lots of unknowns, dark corners, and long shadows, not to mention strange noises made by creatures we’ve never seen, let alone know how to handle.

We have it good because God made it so. But He’s not raising divas and sloths. Our surplus and our excess come with strings attached. We must…

Stay the course. Keep the faith. Endure.

Now go sell something.