To fear God means that my life is structured by a sense of awe, worship, and obedience that flows out of recognizing Him and His glory. He becomes the single most important reference point for all that I desire, think, do, and say. God is my motive and God is my goal. The fear of God is meant to be the central organizing force in my life.
Paul David Tripp

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

THERMODYNAMICS

. The second law of thermodynamics is a law of physics. It has governed every chemical, physical or biological interaction ever studied. Basically, the law states that everything tends to run down. Clocks run down; wind-up toys run down; rocks fall down cliffs but never fall up. In fact, the universe is running down. Physicists tell us that the end of the universe will be cold and black with no light, motion or heat.

. The second law of thermodynamics could well be stated as follows: “In any ordered system, open or closed, there exists a tendency for that system, to decay to a state of disorder, which tendency can only be suspended or reversed by an external source of ordering energy directed by an informational program and transformed through an ingestion-storage-converter mechanism into the specific work required to build up the complex structure of that system.”

. Another way of explaining this second law is to say that everything tends ultimately to fall apart. Houses deteriorate, Toys break. Certain chemicals spontaneously decompose. Even the diamond in a beautiful ring slowl changes back to black, messy carbon; for a diamond is nothing more than a special form of carbon.

. Well, if the tendency of all chemicals is to fall apart rather than get more complex, the theory of the chemical evolution of life is in serious trouble and the two statements cited above would be wrong. The second law is a law of simplification, and its work has been observed in every laboratory in the world.