Don Locke: Lookin Thru Bifocals

Tue, 06/26/2018 - 6:46am — Diane Dyer

Wonderings...

Without God, we live in HOPELESSNESS.

Bertrand Russell, a well-known evolutionist, authored a book called, "Why I'm not a Christian. In it he states, "We started somewhere, we don't know where; we are here, we don't know why; we are going to some great oblivion, we know not wither."

Picture yourself on an airline and the captain came on the intercom with, "We don't know where we are or why. We are going to some great Oblivion."

We would probably say with William Bendix in his old 1950 television series, "What A Revolution Development This Is."

We are told in the Bible that, "God Was; God Is Now; and Is Forever.

Therefore this says to us God knows the future as well as the now and the past.

Hold that thought about God's future knowledge a moment. Also remember that God looks upon the heart of man.

For some of my life I've been vexed but what happens to people who die without any knowledge of God and His grace. A story about Philippine missionary helps me resolve this and in this story we must not lose sight of the fact that God knows what's going to happen down the road.

Working in the backward mountain section of a part of the Philippines, the missionary lead this real old woman to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus. When they got down in the water for the woman to be Baptized, the missionary asked her, "Maria have you believed in Jesus and trusted him to save you?"

Maria answered - "I sure have, and if you had come sooner, I would have trusted SOONER."

God knew down the road, regardless before the missionary even came, when Maria was given the opportunity she would trust him. Therefore she would have been counted saved before the missionary came ...simply because God knew Maria's heart.

Remember God doesn't wear a wristwatch or keep a calendar. Think on this awhile...An African Chieftain was converted to Christianity after he was given a Bible. "What impressed you the most about Jesus?" The missionary asked him ..."Was it his miracles - or his feeding the poor - or his turning the water into wine?" "No," he said, "We had soothsayers and medicine men and men who could perform magic but the thing that won me over really was when Jesus filled the basin with water, wrapped a towel around his waist, got down and WASHED HIS DISCIPLES FEET."

Kindest Regards...