The Bible Speaks to You July 15, 1967 Issue

[The above is an abbreviated, postproduction text of the program released for broadcast the week of July 7-13 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You." Heard internationally over approximately 1,000 stations, the weekly programs are prepared and produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 02115.]

RADIO PROGRAM NO. 275 - Why Man Is Never Beyond Hope

Questioner: Many of us know people who are hopelessly despondent about the situation in which they find themselves. What can someone do if he's at the end of his rope, so to speak?
Speaker: Although he may be beyond human hope and human help, I think the most useful thing we can assure him of is that he's never beyond God's help, that his situation is not hopeless.

The reason for this shines throughout the whole Bible. Time after time we see how God's love and grace—His power—has helped to change the human situation by providing the answer that's needed at that very moment.

There's a saying that's familiar to many of us, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." You know, it's often only when there is an extreme need that an individual is really willing to turn away from himself, from human ways of trying to work out his problem, and lift his thought expectantly, reverently, prayerfully, to God.
Questioner: A lot of people feel that it's too late to do anything, to change their ways.
Speaker: It's never too late for us to turn to God. You know Paul must have weighed this very point when he wrote to the Romans (8:38, 39), "I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."