Gems from March 19-20, 2005
March 19
"... by our gathering together unto Him." (2 Thessalonians 2:1)
These words have been a continual comfort to me of late. We may be separated now, we may see little of some whom we want to see often. There are many partings in life; never once are we promised the joy of long continuance together here, but "our gathering together unto Him" is a certain joy. Every day as it passes brings us nearer that day when we shall gather together unto Him. If it can be such joy to be together here (and I at least have drunk deep of that joy), what will it be to be gathered There? (Amy Carmichael - Edges of His Ways)
N.J. Hiebert # 2193
March 20
"Doth not even nature itself teach you?" (1 Corinthians 11:14) "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." (Matthew 6:28,29)
I asked myself the question as to why God made the world? The only answer I could give was, Because He chose to do so. I could put a thousand questions to scientists, and the only answer they could rightly give is, Because God chose to do so. We could do without primroses, or stars, or strawberries, or horses, or mosquitoes, or bananas, but God chose to give these gifts to man. Why have we night and day? Because God chose it to be so. Why does fire burn? Because God chose it to be so.
When we come to things spiritual, is it any wonder we have many questions to ask, and can only give the answer, Because God chose it to be so? For instance, man's responsibility and God's sovereignty. How can I reconcile them? One thing is sure. God is sovereign. He who existed from all eternity in the blessedness of His own Being - Father, Son and Spirit, One God - is the Originator of the universe, and creation must have taken place at the fiat of His will. We cannot understand it. (A.J. Pollock - Why I Believe the Bible)
N.J. Hiebert # 2194
