The World's Wisest 

     ...often don't get it                       Andree Peterson, WORLD magazine

     "The average person's heart will beat 2.5 billion times. I asked a professor what keeps the heart pumping. She said, 'the electrical system.' OK. What keeps the electrical system going? She said, 'Well, nothing. It's spontaneous.'

     "One possibility not accepted is that God makes and keeps the heart beating. That 'In him we live and move and have our being' - Acts 17:28. Also Revelation 4:11. 

     "Or, take Israel. Why is this country always in the news? Intensely loved or intensely hated by the whole world. One possibility not accepted is the spiritual, that Israel is unique among the nations because God chose it as his vehicle in his salvation plan. 'At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord.' - Jeremiah 3:17. 

     "No wonder Satan keeps kicking up dust about it. It would puzzle me if Israel were not the most controversial nation in the world.

     "Or, how is it that planet Earth is uniquely suited to life? Intellectual elites outdo themselves, with unscientific straw-grasping theories. 'God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.' - Romans 1:20. 

     "Or take the question, where does evil come from? 'God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.' - Ecclesiastes 7:29. We all know that evil is too dark to be explained.

     "Where is the wisdom of the wise? God laughs at it." 

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