Article August 3, 1981 Issue

Where to look for help

HELEN McKEE SENGEBUSH

No matter how tragic a circumstance appears to be, we can find solutions by looking to God. People who turn only to human means for companionship, happiness, comfort, or well-being are depending on help that will finally run dry. Eventually all must look to their divine source for everything they have sought in persons, circumstances—or perhaps the government.

God is the Life of man; therefore our wealth, health, and happiness are in fact spiritual, inviolable. Man can't be separated from his source. Knowing this, we find our daily needs met in practical ways.

An Old Testament story confirms these truths. Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian bondwoman, and her son Ishmael (by Abraham) were turned out of their home and into a desert because of Sarah's jealousy.^{See Gen. 21 .} Hagar's status was little more than that of chattel. At the parting, Abraham gave Hagar bread and a bottle of water, which were soon used up.

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