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Isaiah 40:31. But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Search the Bible at BibleGateway. I decided to become an astrophysicist at the age of eight. I read all the physics and astronomy books in the children’s section of my library. My family supported my voracious appetite for knowledge. My teachers assigned me lots of extra-curricular projects in the social sciences, which eventually sparked my spiritual quest. In my last year of high school, I studied the Thirty Years’ War for one extra project. I wondered why the Catholics and Protestants shed so much blood over trivial doctrine. I posed tough questions to my teacher, who sent me off to the library to read books on comparative religions. Read More... The Goal Of My Life. It was a real struggle for me to become a Christian for a number of reasons. I had always prided myself in being a self-made man. I was used to being in control of my life. I was also afraid of what my friends would think. I looked at Christianity’s ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ and thought that it was so narrow. Read More... Tunnel Vision. In 1971, the troubles in Northern Ireland were increasingly becoming a danger to me and to my six children. We listened to horror stories of suffering every day on the radio. Our personal horror story came the night I was attacked by two gunmen. One beat me while asking me questions about someone’s whereabouts. Although I wasn’t a Christian, I silently prayed for God to help me. Read More...
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| Written by Associate Pastor Wayne Durden |
| Friday, 11 July 2008 13:41 |
 " Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. Daniel 2:20,21
The bible records eye has not seen nor ear heard the things that God has prepared for His children, think on that a moment, who is His children, we are, Praise God! There's absolutely no way we can understand God's wisdom unless we know, as He knows, the end from the beginning. And we know that's impossible. We only see the here and now and even then so often we don't have a very good angle. While God sees perfectly from beginning to end, from everlasting to everlasting, Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding. (Job 36:5). The first nine chapters of Proverbs challenge us to seek the wisdom of God. "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7) Note further the message from Proverbs as it relates to God's widsom. "For whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord; but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death" (Proverbs 8:35,36). Powerful words right, Paul declared, "Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:14). Each of us to some degree are seeking for answers for our life, for our homes, our finances, our children, maybe your career, many things. "Our God" has the answer. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (James 1:17) You're loved, Pastor Durden
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