glasses.” What a parable of life! We look at others and are so ready to complain and condemn jumping at conclusions and all the while not real izing that the dirt is in our own eyes. The Lord Jesus rightly said, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? . . . Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye” (Luke 6:11-12). * * * An atheist cannot reason that a thiefcannot finda policeman. * * * THE WORLD'S WISDOM While studying Greek history chil dren in a Pomona, California gram mar school were offered a prize by their teacher for the one who wrote the most outstanding essay. Inter estingly enough it went to a little Mexican girl who had a composition of only three sentences and it was titled, “The Life of Socrates.” Here was her trio of thoughts: (1) Socra tes was a Greek. (2 ) Socrates went around giving advice to the people. (3) The people poisoned Socrates. The world is not interested in ad vice. There is the offense of the Cross in the Gospel ministry and people don’t want to hear the truth of God’s Word. In Paul’s letter to the Corin thian believers, he makes this evident as he forcefully writes: “For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (I Corin thians 1:21). It may well be that the reason some people get lost in thought is that it is such unfamiliar territory to them. Apart from Christ, there is no true wisdom for it is the divine endowment of God; it is that price less gift which James recognizes when he declares, “Every good g ift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
II isn't so much ability that God wants« but availability and pliability. * * * WHICH IS WORSE? Sociologists in our country are alarmed and concerned with the im moral and inconsistent growth of lying evident on every hand. What were once considered deliber ate lies are now just “exaggerations” of the truth. A little girl asked her mother, “Mommy, which is worse, to steal or to tell a lie?” The mother thought about it for a moment and then she said, “Tell me which you think?” The little girl rightly de fined it: “To tell a lie must be worse. I f you steal something you can always take it back, but a lie is forever.” Too often people are like the little boy who, when asked what a lie was, be came very pious and righteously de clared, “A lie is an abomination to the Lord, and a very present help in time of trouble.” * * * To know God'swill is man's greatest treasure, and to do His will is life's great est privilege. * * * MANAND DUST The late Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, a chemist of international fame, de clared, “The greatest miracle of the Bible is its chemical accuracy. The first book declares that man was made out of the dust of the ea/rth and this is literally and scientifically true. From the plain earth there are 16 different chemical elements. In the body there are those exact same chemical elements. How could Moses have known this long before the sci ence of chemistry came into exis tence? I can only say that God alone could have so inspired the writer of that day. True science and the Bible are never at odds. Should all of the space between the atoms in the body of a 200-pound man be removed and only the solid substance retained, he would be no bigger than a particle of dust.” While the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground 16
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