If you want to know about God and what He requires in your life and how you should live, you must make the Bible absolutely central to your everyday reading. There is no where else that can tell you what you need to know. You cannot afford to listen to someone else's ideas, you need the Bible only. If you have a good pastor he or she will be feeding the word to you, but you still need to search the sciptures to make sure he has got it right. You must not be a lazy christian depending on some else, having a second hand faith. You must energetically search the sciptures for yourself. The Holy Spirit will help you if you ask. You must also been prepared to have dearly held views challenged. The Bible is no ordinary book, if you approach it sincerely it will change your life and that may be painful. Often our lives need drastic measures to bring us into the light. But it will be worth it.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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