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DESIRE FOR GOD Do you find that the people in your neighborhood are interested in the things o>f God—I mean, really inter ested? A book seller wired a Phila delphia publisher for copies of the vol ume, “Seeking After God.” The follow ing came back, “No ‘Seeking After God’ in Philadelphia or New York: try Boston.” Many a truth has been spoken inadvertently. The Bible rightly reminds us in Romans 3:11, “There is none that seeketh after God.”
of your own failures and shortcomings; between contending for the faith or rather just being contentious because of your own self-centered opinions and stubbornness. The list could go on and on. There is a real need in these days of mental and moral confusion to make certain that we are following implicit ly God’s marching orders. For this rea son, each of us is exhorted to, “Put on the whole armour of God that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
It's a strange thing that nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Horse sense is the ability to say "Heigh" to temptation.
MAJOR DIFFERENCES There’s sometimes a vast difference between things which we may consider right and what is actually correct. Let me give you an example: As far as our spiritual lives are concerned, there’s an important distinction between being sorry for your sin and being sorry because your sin is found out; between confessing your sin and confessing the sins of someone else; between being able to look objectively at your own faults and not just seeing the faults of others. Going a step further, there’s a real significance to whether you are being led by your own selfish imagina tion and desires; between suffering for the Lord’s sake and suffering because
A PLASTIC HEART A milestone in medical history was achieved not too long ago when Dr. Michael Dubakey, famed Houston , Texas heart surgeon, performed an op eration in which a special artificial heart kept a man alive for several day8. Not long after that, the physician received a letter from a little seven year-old girl in Pittsburg, Pennsyl vania. Linda Griggs wrote on behalf of her second grade class, “Dear Dr. Dubakey: Can you please tell us, does a plastic heart have love in it?” The obvious response was that it represent ed the tender compassion and self-sac rificing love of many people who had worked eagerly on the project so that 25
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