by Jerry Senn
“God can create the world. Make the sun rise. Answer prayer. Move mountains.
He can provide wisdom. Offer hope. Restore moral sanity.
He can guide the confused. Comfort the lonely. Liberate the oppressed.
Embrace the stigmatized. Topple rulers. Bless the humble.
Part seas. Calm storms. Invent beetles.
Bring justice. Forgive guilt. Redeem the past. Secure the future.
Make life. Give breath. Feed sparrows. Cloth lilies. Know everything. Be everywhere.
Love everybody. Give knowledge of his will and the power to carry it out.
He can run the show.
None of these statements are glib promises that we can have the circumstances we want if we just believe enough. They are Reality 101. There is a God. It is not me.” (John Ortberg, “Steps,” p 4)
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“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth” (Psalm 19:1-6).
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“God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit” (John Haggai).