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The homing instinct

by Suresh Manoharan

 

In my childhood, I remember having a neighbour who was a dog lover.  He had a wonderful tall dog, which would always nuzzle up to him. 

 

Suddenly, one day in a fit of temper, for reasons best known to him, he wanted to get rid of it.  So while going on a business trip, he took it with him in his car, dropped it in another city nearly one hundred kilometres away and drove back home, alone.

 

A week later, he had a visitor.  You guessed it.  His faithful dog had returned home using its own homing, navigational instincts.  He was so moved, that he took loving care of his faithful dog as long as it lived.

 

We too have been created with a ‘homing instinct’.  We too are consciously, or unconsciously restless and exhibit ‘homesick’ symptoms till we experience our Creator God.

 

“I spread out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.”
Psalm 143:6

 

Have you ‘homed in’ on Him?  If not, why delay?

 

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