At the weekend I took part in a short mat indoor bowls tournament. We have this once a year to raise money for charity. The charity we chose this year provides motorcycle riders who transport blood and other medical things, such as body parts for transplants. They are on call and able to respond rapidly to whatever is needed. They usually have about sixteen call-outs a day. This is a very worthwhile thing to be doing both for the riders and for us raising the money. I would encourage anyone to get involved in something worthwhile like this. However none of this gets us any kudos or merit with God. Never imagine that you can get into God's good books by doing stuff. There is only one thing that pleases God and fits us for heaven and that is to put our trust entirely in Jesus. He is the only one who lived the perfect life and the only one who can put us right with God.
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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