All who are distressed by the world's belief in inadequate housing will find comfort in Paul's statement, "In him we live, and move, and have our being." The truth necessary to correct the belief of homelessness is the same truth which heals any sense of lack, namely, the completeness of God's creation. In an infinitely good universe, man is abundantly supplied. This fact does not depend upon some future industrial reconversion or upon the stabilization of labor relations, but is eternally true now.
Biblical history gives us many inspiring proofs that divine Love always has met the human need for home. For example, what encouragement there is for the dispirited home hunter in the story of Hagar, Abraham's Egyptian bondwoman! Cast out with her son Ishmael, she wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba until her supply of water was spent. Then, despairing, she placed the child under a bush to die and sat down where she would not be able to hear his cries. But "God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink" (Gen. 21:19). As Hagar's vision expanded, she must have found not only water but a new glimpse of God's care and provision for man, since the Bible states that she did not return to her native Egypt, but lived in the wilderness until her son was a grown man.
Today, fear tempts us to believe that, like Hagar, we can be homeless, cut off from God's provision. But we too find our source of supply at hand when a spiritual intuition, an angel, lifts our thought to perceive Love's ever-presence.
