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By Chuck Badfrtu
"For God so loved the world, that He five His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believe(h in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." ( John 3:16). So reads the
greatest test on the greatest theme in the greatest Book ever
written.
"I or God..." So begins this greatest of declarations. We
gase around us, within us, and above us, and everywhere the
mind is confronted with the mysteries of life and death -the
* meaning of things, the reality of experience, the how, and
above all, the why of existence.
"Ah man, so great, renowned and wise.
Pray tell who hung the azure skies?
Who built the cavern of the sea
And guards the waters' boundary?
What mason's hand built mountains high.
Whose survey does the sun go by?
W ho lights the stars at eventide?
W ho tells the moon to change her stride?
And now. 0 man! in wisdom's throes.
How gets the perfume in the rose?
W. Earlington Whitney
'Ilie simple answer of the Bible-and the answer is no less
profound liecause it is so simple--is that "every house is built
by someone, bul the builder of all things is God." ( Hebrews
3:4. RSV.)
"In the beginning God created..." ( Genesis 1:1.) That is
the Iteginnirig of the Bible. It is the beginning of the universe.
Is is the t>eginniug of religion. It is the beginning of faith, for
"by faith we understand that the world was created by the
word of God. so that what is seen was made out of things
which do not appear." ( Hebrews 11:3, RSV.)
You know, the Bible never once argues about the existence
of God. His reality is taken for granted, even as the existence
of the sun is taken for granted. But, you may rightly say, "We
can see the sun. ' Even so may God be seen, "for what can be
known about is plain because God has shown it.. Ever
since the creation of the world his invisible nature, nrmely his
eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the
things that have been made." ( Romans 1:19,20, RSV.)
Augustine grasped this amazing truth and expressed hii
conviction in eloquent language: "And what U God? I asked
the earth: and it replied. 'I am not God:' and whatever is
therein made the same confession. I asked the sea and the
abyss, and the creeping things therein and they answered:
' We are not thy God. seek Him higher.' I asked the breezy air.
and the whole sky with its denizens replied, 'Anaximenes is
wrong. I am not God,' I asked heaven, sun, moon, stars: 'Nor
yet are we the God whom thou seekst,' they made answer.
Then I spake to all that crowd around the doors of sense: 'Ye
have told me concerning my God that you are not He: tell me
now what ye ran of Him:' And they exclaimed with a loud
voice, ' He created us.'
The Scriptures assure us that this majesti< and eternal
Being who created all things has given us a revelation of
Himself adequate to our understanding. Because He created
all arid we are made in his image, our conceptions of God must
be spiritual and personal. "The God who made the world and
everything in it. being lord of heaven and earth, does not live
in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human
hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives
to all men life and breath and everything. For 'in him we live
and move and have our being.' Being then God's offspring, we
ought not to think (hat the Diety is like gold, or silver, or stone,
a representation by the art and imagination of man." ( Acts
17:24 29, RSV.)
In the Scriptures God is compared to a tender shepherd end
a loving Father. But even with these human comparisons, we
may still find it difficult to visualize God. So He has taken the
final and inevitable stop of coming down from heaven to share
our humanity, the final and full revelation of God is found in
Jesus. "In these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom
he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he
created the world." ( Hebrews 1:2, RSV.)
The prophets pictured God to their generation by calling to
their aid comparisons of various human relationships. Jesus,
on the other hand, revealed God by becoming man. Therefore
He could truthfully say: "He who has seen me has seen the
Father." ( John 14:9, RSV.)
We inrite anyone who would like to come and wort hip with
ut to join ut at our church located 2 milet wett of Pembroke at
the junction of Highunyt 710-711. The church tn study it at 3
pm and the churrh in worthip it at 4 pm each Saturday. Our
mul week terrier it at 7 pm each Tuetday*
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Jones of IVmbroke, NC an
nounce the engagement o
their daughter. Alesia t *
Mirhael Alan Cummings.
Miss Jonea graduated fror ?
West Robeson High School i j
19H4 and from Kings Collets
in 1985. She is employed by
Smith and Jobe, P.A. of
^-"Lumherton. N.C.
Her fiance ia the son of Mr.
Uuerlon B. Cummings, Sr.
and Ms. Shelbie J. Cummings
of Florida. He graduated from
Marianna High School in
1984. He is employed by
Converse, Inc. of Lumberton.
N.C.
Hie wedding is planned for
June 25, 1988 at 5:00 pm, ii
Friendship Missionary Bap
tist Church.
No invitations will be ma
iled, but friends and relatives
are invited to attend.
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A Social Note
In honor of the Fiftieth
Wedding Anniversary of Mr.
and Mm. louts Dial their
children and grandchildren
request the pleasure of yourl
company at a dinner on
Saturday the fourth of June!
IMS at four o'clock in the!
afternoon at Prospect School!
Cafterta in Maxton, North jj
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