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Consider the Evidence, my Atheistic Friend By: Maxine M. Are you one who puts the subject of God as far as you can from your mind? You’re considered a “good” person but towards anything religious or spiritual you’re not inclined Seeing so much hurt and injustice all around, IF there is a God, He must be blind Something happened when you were young…something you could never accept or understand A hurt so deep that couldn’t possibly have happened if a sovereign God was in command A victim in childhood…of life’s ever insidious destructive demands So you hardened your heart & rejected even His very existence You laugh at those who pray to this FATHER with devoted persistence Thinking you’ll be less vulnerable if you never expect Divine assistance But stop!! Just LOOK in the mirror & think…give a reasonable explanation if you can To whatever theories YOU have as to the origin of man Because human existen
Does He Hear? By: Maxine M. We are taught from childhood…Come boldly to the throne of Grace in faithful prayer Talk to God as a child to a Father…lay your heart bare For the DAILY stress and the “surprises” in life, this helps us prepare BUT does God truly answer prayer…or is our pleading all in vain? Don’t we often grow weary in waiting? Oh, what an emotional drain! But have we asked in SINCERITY or uttered a continuous often repeated refrain? Will our request bring Glory to our Saviour or is it SELF we wish to promote? Are our motives pure? Have we asked amiss as James long ago wrote? Is there “something” you’ve NOT surrendered hiding deep within…be it ever so remote? Something HE wishes brought to light, perhaps some unfulfilled vow A secret sin not confessed or presumptuous sins He never would allow Or often the request is just not in the Father’s plan for you…at least not right now Has the prayer included respect & hon
Oh NO!! What’s that Sound?! By: Maxine M. The demons were rejoicing worshipping Satan one dark Friday long ago “Oh, exalted ruler of this world, YOU are VICTORIOUS…now your evil will incessantly flow Your influence over the human race will only expand & constantly grow” And Satan basked in this thought and reflected how this day came to be How since his fall he’d been trying to gain superiority over the Blessed Trinity He smiled at how he had tricked Eve & gotten her to agree Agree that God wasn’t fair and that it was ok to disbelieve what God had said He laughed at the downfall of the human race when this disobedience led How, through all the successive generations, his deception had spread He remembered his own anger & exasperation when he learned what the Father had planned That God the Son one day, with His very life, would pay sin’s demand How he had ramped up his own efforts…fires of lust, greed, hatred he’d fanned When Jesus became the Son of Man, Satan knew the plan