Seeking Wisdom from the Author of Wisdom
Odds play an important part in everyday life. Or at least our understanding of “odds”. We believe in chance, probabilities, and luck because everything that occurs appears to happen on a scale of likeliness or unlikeliness. And based upon our specific interpretation of this phenomenon, we move forward with choices. And so we ask: what are the odds? [Read more…]
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“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7
This well known passage in Scripture has at times mystified me. When Christ tells us we can ask for “whatever”, it leaves the door wide open. Can we really ask for anything and get it?
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The ancient biblical story of Job is a stand-alone story – there is none other like it. Few (if any) in history have gone through the magnitude of suffering Job endured, and few have acted with such courage in that suffering. Job stands as the premier example of enduring hardship and loss with a God-honoring attitude and receiving the blessed results that follow. His reactions to the tragedy in his life powerfully illustrate how to have strength in times of adversity.
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Many people believe the way you make God happy with you is through sacrificing something. Now, I’m not talking about an offering on an altar, or a gift on a shrine, although that is how many people understand sacrifice. Rather, I am referring to the idea of sacrifice as something that one gives up in order to give to another. In this example, that “other” is God.
Everyone is seeking that which lasts. Day to day, through all of time, in every corner of the globe, mankind is yearning for what endures. But do people ever really stop to consider what does last? Surely we know the words of mankind do not. Think of the countless books that have been written since peoples first began writing their thoughts on stones and scrolls. Think of the billions upon billions of writings from every corner of the globe, for thousands of years. Trillions and trillions and trillions of words.
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