Now what is that supposed to mean? This is the title of some evening meetings at
a local Baptist Church. Can you of your own volition move towards belief? I think not.
Belief is something you have or do not have. Only God can give it to you. We all begin this life “dead in trespasses
and sins.” A dead person can do nothing for themselves and especially not
believe. “Through grace we are saved by
faith and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God.” You can do nothing to
pull yourself out of sin, you are dependent on Jesus who died to save His
people from their sins. If you put your
trust in Jesus you will find it was because He called you first of all. We love
Him because He first loved us.
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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