I was told of a man, who exasperated by all the problems in his life and the woes around the world, finally asked God: why did He allow Eve to be tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, which led to the opening of the Pandora's box.
A few days later, the man's neighbour gave him a puppy. However, as the puppy had already stayed with the neighbour for several days, it naturally regarded the neighbour's place as "home".
Hence despite having new owners, in the days that followed the puppy would still instinctively run to "home" next door whenever the gate was open. Each time this happened, the man would
patiently go over to his neighbour's to bring back his new pet.
This happened for several weeks. Until finally one day, the gate was accidentally left open. But much to the pleasant surprise of the man, the puppy did not run out of the house. In was this moment, when the man realised his puppy had found where was home. Although the man had owned his dog for a while already, it was only now that it truly belonged to him.
This was God's real life answer to the man's question. God had intentionally allowed the gates of His house to be open, even though He knew that we'd, like the puppy, run away to another "home" which was not ours. His purpose was not to tempt or harm us, but that we might learn with heartfelt conviction of who our Master is.
That will be when we finally find home.
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