ciple role in this amazing age in which we live. As great as these achievements are, they cannot be compared to what God can do in our lives. Edu cation may produce a surgeon, a scientist, or an engineer; but it cannot deliver us, as Paul says in Colossians 1:13, from the power of darkness and translate us into the kingdom of His dear Son. This can only be done, as Paul observes in the next verse, through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. David indicates in Psalm 18:1-2, that the source of true strength is in the Lord. As great as the competence is that comes from a knowledge of our own skills, we can never fully face present problems or the un certainty of the future with just the benefits of education.
plants are becoming common place, and a heart transplant no longer rates the headline in our major newspapers. Isn't it astound ing that the physician who, as a child, had to be taught how to hold a spoon or use a fork and knife in cutting a piece of meat be comes a skilled surgeon through the process of education and ex perience. The abilities that are Cod-given are strengthened, de veloped and honed until the life of an individual can be extended through a skill. The same is true of the engineer. Stacking blocks correctly when he was two years old may have given him trouble, but now he may be intelligently arguing over the de sign of the next space module to land on the moon. Education, indeed, plays a prin
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