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St. Paul School of Leadership & Discipleship Lesson 146 - BITS OF WISDOM FROM AN OLD WARRIOR (INTRO) By Frank Eiklor and the Shalom Team A "Frank" Introduction
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Now I want to offer you a change—small portions—bits of wisdom this aging warrior has grasped over many years. The thoughts may be brief—but they have been very precious and powerful in my own life. I pray that they will also benefit you. So here we go—the first of many brief nuggets of truth from the fly leaf of my Bible—and translated by our faithful Cecilia Contreras.
WHEN MY PROBLEMS LOOK BIGGER THAN GOD!
I take a walk (like Enoch) and look up. The universe equals billions of stars grouped in uncountable galaxies. Just one, the Milky Way is where we live—and our solar system is an insignificant part—with our planet earth a grain of sand by comparison.
Just our one galaxy equals some 33 stars for each individual on earth. At the speed of light—186,000 miles a SECOND—it would take you 150,000 years just to get from one end of the Milky Way to the other. (That’s just our one galaxy!) In comparison, man’s best speed is 5 miles a second to escape the gravitational pull of earth.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). He also created YOU, with Christ’s promise “Lo, I am with you to the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20). So trust Him with your problems and your heart. Jesus didn’t die for the universe. He died for you!
"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
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new one makes perfect sense. The splitting of the atom turned many skeptics into believers.
After all, look what man himself is capable of doing with the atom and hydrogen bombs. Now
the fear is that nuclear weapons are being placed in the hands of madmen who wish to annihilate
their enemies. God has blessed man with incredible genius. We stand in awe as we watch men and women in a room full of computers and high-tech instruments guiding and landing spacecraft on distant planets. At that moment, we appear invincible. But then a mammoth tornado comes—or a terrifying hurricane—or rains that flood whole regions and never listen to our shouts to “Stop!”—or the shake that removes from under our feet any confidence or pride we carry, and leaves us numb with hardly enough breath to even utter the paralyzing word “EARTHQUAKE!”. And man is helpless in the face of it all! |
