Friday, January 4, 2008

Why God?

... We have this somehow innate belief that the most difficult things in life can be turned around, with the right combination of helpful techniques (viz 'The Secret') in something akin to the wink of an eye.

In a sense this is true. Yet only God can definitively accomplish it. Only He can rescue us from our lastest peril in something like miraculous time. In fact He does this regularly, though usually the miracle arrives early, unbidden & unseen, heading off the vast majority of calamties we, in our clumsy, reckless and often wilful existence, are otherwise destined for. And because He does such sovereign works mostly anonymously too, we don't recognize Almighty God's unique abilities to save & rescue until we really need Him, usually after the fact, on the other side of some terribly botched job or other, normally when we're already up to our necks in it and have no way out on our own-- no way out but His ...

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