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SATISFY YOURSELF (6 OF 26)

by Fred Lowery

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Satisfy Yourself (6 of 26)
Fred Lowery


''For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ,'' I Corinthians 3:11

''He has set eternity in our hearts.-, Ecc. 3:11

''Knock, knock''. ''Who's there?'' ''God''. ''Sorry, God, I can't talk now, I'm watching the Wortd Series.'' ''Oh yeah? Watch this.'' '' With the earth caving in, concrete walls collapsing and the ground shaking beneath our feet, for a day, God got our attention,'' wrote Barbara Reynolds in her article ''Heaven to Earth:This is God Talking''. Suddenly the ball players could care less about the World Series as they searched the stands with their tear-filled eyes hoping to get a glimpse of family members unhurt. Tearful reunions took place on the f'Leld as balt players and their families got together, At that moment in time, the normal affairs of men lost their importance. '',Maybe onlv in the eye of a storm or at an epicenter of an earthquake do we understand that our happiness and security depend less on ''man power'' than on the grace of God - the very someone many of us idnore until the earth comes tumbting down.'' (USA Today, Friday, October 20, 1989, 13A) Somehow we must understand that the kingdom of God is significant - all else is insignificant.

Sinclair Lewis, a writer of American literature, one day removed his watch, placed it on the table before him and remarked, ''If there is a God, I will give him fifteen minutes to strike me dead.'' He lived a life of liquor and license with seemingly no one to stoo him. After all, he had given God a chance i'lo stop him and God passed it up. Sadly, he spent the last thirty years of his life as a pitiful alcoholic. He died at age 66, although he looked y'ears older, alone in a second-class clinic in the outskirts of Rome. The chart read .. paralisi cardiaca.'' Paralysis of the heart. (Roberts, pa.de 129)

William M.iller in his book The Joy of Feeling Good tells the heartwarming story of Peter Niewiek as ...

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