then regardless of how your prayer is answered, your faith will not be shaken. You can improve your prayer life by thinking more about God than you think about your prayers. Q. Santa Barbara, Calif. — “What’s the matter with a person when he loses his enthusiasm for living? I ’m in some kind of a rut. Things I used to get excited about just don’t in terest me anymore. What can I do?” A. Someone has appropriately said that a ru t is simply a grave with both ends kicked out. You may feel like this at times. One quick thought is that it could be old age ereeping on. More deeply, when a person be gins to lose his enthusiasm for liv ing, it could be that he is out of fellowship with the Lord. With the world in the condition in which we find it, what reason has one for liv ing, apart from the Lord? Make sure you have definite contact with Him through prayer and Bible study. For get about yourself and get interested in the church or some special spirit ual project for the Lord. Try to help others, for there are untold people much less fortunate than yourself. So many folks feel sorry for them selves. Such practice might enable you to regain your enthusiasm for living making your life worthwhile for the glory of the Lord. There might be a physical reason. Check with your doctor. Q. Wichita, Kans. — “Could the wine our Lord turned from water have been unfermented?” A. We do not believe our Lord would have anything to do with fermented wine which is intoxicating. That which our Lord brought about was a miracle. No one can say just ex actly what the constituency of the beverage actually was. The recipe was a heavenly one. Our holy Sav iour would not contribute to any
thing which would harm any of His creatures. Q. Porterville, Calif. — “In Romans 7: 25, why did Paul say with the mind he would serve the law of God but with the flesh, the law of sin? I thought Christians should strive to overcome sin in the flesh.” A. The Bible rightly reminds us that in the flesh dwelleth no good thing. When a person is bom again, his old GOD IS IN EVERY TOMORROW God is in every tomorrow, Therefore I live for today. Certain of finding at sunrise. Guidance and strength for the way; Power for each moment of weakness, Hope for each moment of pain, Comfort for every sorrow. Sunshine and joy after rain. God is in every tomorrow. Planning for you and for me; E'en in the dark will I follow. Trust where my eyes cannot see. Stilled by His promise of blessing, Soothed by the touch of His hand, Confident in His protection. Knowing my life-path is planned. God is in every tomorrow. Life with its changes may come, He is behind and before me, While in the distance shines home! Home— where no thought of tomor row Ever can shadow my brow, Home— in the presence of Jesus, Through all eternity— now! nature is not made over, for it is just as sinful as ever. He is given new life in Jesus Christ. Salvation means that there is a new creation born within. The old is not even worth salvaging (Gal. 2:20). Paul was merely stating his case, elabor ated upon in the seventh chapter of Romans. He wants to serve the Lord and yet there is always that constant struggle with the things of the devil. But there is victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 13
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