A Glimpse Into God’s Plan
September 1, 2023
In 1947, a shepherd boy by the name of Mohammed Ab Dib, from the Ta-Amir Bedouin tribe, was allegedly searching for lost sheep when he tossed a rock into the mouth of a cave near the Dead Sea. That evening as he sat around the campfire with his older brothers, Mohammed told how he had heard an evil spirit which he thought had been disturbed by a rock he had thrown into the cave as he searched for a lost goat.
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They called him, "The Gentleman Bandit." Few robbers were ever more kind to their victims. He would rob people, then mail the pictures of children and grandchildren back to their home addresses. After pulling a gun and informing the victim that it was a robbery, on several occasions his heart would be touched by their stories of hardship if they lost their money, and he would put his gun in his pocket and walk away. On one occasion a man was so frightened that he sustained a heart attack, and the kind bandit called for an ambulance. He went so far as to sympathetically call the homes of victims, to see if they had recovered from the fright of being robbed.
August 31, 2023
Out of the mouth of babes come some of the toughest issues that ever confront theologians, to say nothing of Sunday school teachers or parents. For example, the question that my son, then five years of age, once put to me in rush-hour traffic: "Daddy, how did Jesus get to be God?" What struck me about the question was that we hadn't even been talking about the subject. Surprising as it may seem to you, that very issue was one of the first controversies in the early church. Did Jesus become God when He was born? Or rather was He always God and only appeared to be a man?
August 30, 2023
Anyone who has ever undertaken a building project knows that what looks great on paper never takes the same shape in the real world. I don't know if Nehemiah had ever heard of "Murphy's law --whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." There must have been a Persian equivalent, because a man who lived 2600 years ago experienced the full force of that reality.
August 29, 2023
Have you ever wanted to do something, yet you were faced with all kinds of obstacles? If you answer, "Yes!" then you can relate to one of the greatest of all Old Testament characters, a man by the name of Nehemiah.
August 28, 2023
In her book, Having It All, psychologist Deborah Lee quotes an investment consultant as saying, "Having both work and family is a plus." She points out that a balanced portfolio is much safer than having all your stock in one company. Question: "Can you really have it all?" Can you have a rewarding job and a happy family—a high- powered, high-stress job with a lot of demands and a salary to match, at the same time you are a mother or a dad who is there for his or her children? Can you succeed in business and still be there when your child takes his first step, or throws his first ball at Little League? Can you sit on the corporate board and be there for Parent's Day when your daughter's first grade teacher shows moms and dads how well little Teresa can read?
August 25, 2023
No individual can really be educated apart from a knowledge of the Bible, and the book of Psalms in this grand book contains some of the most beautiful and thought-provoking passages and prose of all the world's great literature. I, for one, marvel at the profound emotional insights which you find described here—the same emotions and feelings we grapple with today. In Psalm 42 and 43, which were probably written as one, the writer voices a recurring theme. Three times he asks, "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?" Three times, he speaks of the solution: "Put your hope in God," he says, adding, "for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
August 24, 2023
"If you want to make God laugh," says a post it sticker, "make plans!" And what is the real message—that you should never try to plan anything? No, but rather, when God is left out of your plan, your game plan may never happen. There is a proverb which says, "We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall" (Proverbs 16:33 NLT).
August 23, 2023
Dr. Vernon Grounds was a friend and mentor to thousands of young men and young women preparing for Christian work. In one of his letters he told of a woman who was captured during the Spanish Civil War, and when she was ordered to reveal where she stood politically, she knew that saying the wrong thing could result in her being shot as a traitor. To say that she was a conservative meant she was on the right of the political spectrum, and to say that she was a liberal would identify her as a leftist. Uncertain as to what she should say and knowing how important her answer could be, she thought for a moment and then replied, "I stand at extreme center."
August 22, 2023
Of the four Gospels, none is more to the point and straightforward than the account of Jesus' life as rendered by Mark. Because of his close relationship with Peter who, himself, was a pretty blunt, leave-nothing-unsaid sort of a person, many scholars believe that Mark simply reflected Peter's thoughts. With that in mind, may I remind you that some of the most uplifting, positive words of Jesus are also recorded by Mark? For example, Mark tells about the time Jesus was talking with the disciples and said, "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours" (Mark 11:24). Then Jesus said, "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (v. 25).
August 21, 2023
A man walked into a bank, handed the teller a threatening note and walked out with a bag of money containing more than $3,000. The man was never caught, but the whole thing has authorities baffled. It began a few months later when the bank received an envelope which had been mailed from a distant city containing a cashier's check in the name of a Mister R.E. Morse as in the word "remorse." Along with one of the checks was the following note: "My faith in Christ as my Savior has impelled me to undertake this reimbursement and I hope to be able to pay it off within six months."
August 18, 2023
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