Issue 1826 – Chubby Cheeks – October 6, 2025

This little fellow was obviously very used to people feeding him.  Even though I had no food, he had no qualms about approaching me. When he realized I had nothing for him to eat, he moved away,

A little way down the trail, he came across a pile of sunflower seeds that someone had left for him. He stuffed his cheeks so full that they ballooned out and disappeared back into the woods. It wasn’t long before he was back, repeating the process until all the seeds were gone.

I tried but couldn’t get a decent shot of his chubby chipmunk cheeks. He resembled something out of a cartoon.

Chipmunks stash all the food they can find, so they have plenty for autumn when they are preparing to hibernate. I’m sure that they are like squirrels and forget at least some of what they have stashed, which allows the seed to grow in new places.

While people don’t have chipmunk cheeks, with the exception perhaps of some trumpet players, sometimes our habits resemble theirs.

We can’t get enough. We lust for the newest, fanciest, fastest, sexiest whiz-bang gizmo, as the old saying goes, “It’s good for everything, and if that isn’t enough, it’s good for nothing too!”

Advertisers are aware of our tendency to be unsatisfied. Billions are spent every year to cause us to buy more things. They appeal to our vanity, our lust, our loneliness, and more. Buy our product and we promise you will be satisfied, well, at least until we have another one to sell you.

We all fall for it. Chipmunks do it to survive, we do it out of emptiness and dissatisfaction.

We spend money we don’t have to buy things to impress people who don’t care. It’s a problem as old as humanity.  We find ourselves trapped in prisons of debt, with stuff we didn’t really want or need, and still hungering for more. 

It’s a problem as old as fallen humanity.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. Proverbs 27:20

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 1 John 2:16

Our true satisfaction can never come from chasing the things of the world.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Matthew 5:6

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33

Seek fulfillment where it is to be. Find contentment in the Lord.

Let me close today with a prayer from Paul. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)

Be blessed, 

Kevin

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