Did you ever have a security blanket? A blanket you would take with you everywhere. Through rain or snow, sunshine or dark nights, dirt and mud, that blanket accompanied you. Then one fateful day your parents tell you that you can't take your blanket to your first day of school. It is the end of the world. So what do you do? You hide your blanket in your backpack and pray your parents don't find it.
"So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods."
Rachel had a similar moment when she stole her father's household idols. When her father caught up to them, she ended up sitting on them and lying so he wouldn't find them.
There have been a lot of times where I wondered why she stole them. Perhaps the reason wasn't because they were so stylish, but maybe because she needed the security of those "gods" in case this God failed.
In the back of our minds, are we expecting God to fail? Do we put more faith in medicine, technology, and money then we do in God's ability to provide and care for us? Do we have a security blanket stashed away when it turns out God isn't enough?
"Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly." Proverbs 26:11
It is just gross and foolish to put more faith in our security blankets then we do in God.
---Joy
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