What a privilege to know that we can walk through our mornings and our evenings in utter safety! To feel we are walking on solid fact under a canopy of love! Thought turns to that wonderfully assuring statement in the Bible: "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
In the Old Testament story, as soon as Jonah was told by God to travel to Nineveh, he went down to the coast and took passage on the next ship to Tarshish.
The Gospel of Matthew records Christ Jesus' parable of how a farmer sowed good seed in his field, but while he slept, a foe sowed tares among the wheat.
Contemporary religion is fraught with questions and concern about morality—that discriminating knowledge of what is good and constructive, opposed to the degenerative and self-destructive.
Several years ago, when one of our daughters was a high-school senior, I yielded to the temptation to circumvent a school regulation so that she might attend an all-day seminar in her planned field of study.
Think how raptly the disciples of Christ Jesus must have listened as their Master taught them how to pray! His prayers "moved mountains": comforted the sorrowing, reformed the sinning, healed the sick, even raised a man four days dead.
