livingwaters Years ago, when I told 100 kids to line up for candy, I noticed that the greedy kids were at the front, and the quiet, sickly, and humble kids had been pushed to the back. So I turned the line around 180 degrees and went to the quiet sickly kids first, much to the disgust of the greedy kids at the back. In this world where the arrogant and rich get richer and the humble and the poor get stomped on, God, in His great wisdom, has turned the line around. To illustrate how He did this, let me ask you some questions. Do you believe that Noah built a literal ark? How about Moses opening the Red Sea? What about Jonah and the whale, and 101 other intellectually embarrassing anachronisms -- Bible stories that are harder to swallow than Jonahs whale? If, like Bill Maher, you have any intellectual dignity, you would never stoop to believe such foolishness. You would have nothing but contempt for those who do believe them, and so your proud condescension automatically pushes you to the back of the line. Such is the wonderful wisdom of God, with whom nothing is impossible. Listen to how the Bible (the Book “from the Bronze Age”) describes this: ... God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are... (1 Corinthians 1:27-28, AMP Bible). So, if you want everlasting life (and avoid a very real Hell) use your intelligence to grasp this biblical principle: God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble, and then humble yourself and get right with God: needGod
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:52:48 +0000