Just How Good our God Really Is!

When the grandchildren come over to play with me, one game we always play is "guess which hand". They sit on the bottom step of my 13 step staircase and I offer them two closed hands, one of which holds a tiny ladybug magnet.  If they guess the right hand and find the ladybug, they get to go up one step.  If they guess the wrong hand, they stay where they are.  The one who gets to the top step first is the winner, and he gets to be the one with the ladybug, while I join the others back on the bottom step.

Sometimes when the kids are over, even when we're not playing the game, I go to them with my hands clenched and say, "guess which hand".  No matter which hand they pick, there is a treat for them, a candy kiss or a tiny toy, for no other reason than I delight to give them a gift and watch them smile.

Father God plays that game, "guess which hand", too.  Not with stuff we need.  Like he doesn't hold our rent money in one hand and give us the chance to guess it, or lose it.  No he freely meets our needs, but more than that, he plays "guess which hand", and both hands are loaded with things we want, not just things we need.  "He opens his hand, and satisfies the desires of every living thing." Ps. 145:16.  Our desires, think of it, those things we long for in our hearts, spoken or unspoken, held out to us in his open hand, just for the delight of seeing our smile.

God is soooo good.