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As a philosophical idea, God’s decreeing of a thing has dominance over His seeing a thing beforehand. Even though…the word foreknowledge is more than pre-sight, we nonetheless cannot disregard the verity that God sees all things beforehand. Thus God’s seeing all things has forever been a reality to Him, and God’s determining all things has also been forever. These two have had eternal origins. As long as He has decreed, He has known; and as long as He has known, He has decreed. So, in one sense, we cannot put one philosophical idea ahead of the other in terms of time. Yet we can put one above the other in terms of dominance. If God has seen and determined at the same time, we cannot make His decreeing subservient to His knowing. The reason one is preceding the other in terms of force (not time) is that determination is a willful act of God, whereas seeing is a passive act. God cannot help but see all, but He wills to decree. Therefore what He determines, He sees; and what He sees, is determined. The force of decreeing a thing dominates the seeing.
Jim Elliff

All is shadow here below! The world is a shadow; and it passes away! The creature is a shadow; and the loveliest and the fondest may be the first to die! Health is a shadow; fading, and in a moment gone! Wealth is a shadow; today upon the summit of affluence, tomorrow at its base, plunged into poverty and dependence! Human friendships and creature affections are but shadows; sweet and pleasant while they last, but, with a worm feeding at the root of all created good, the sheltering gourd soon withers, exposing us to the sun's burning heat by day, and to the frost's cold chill by night! Oh, yes! “Passing Away” is indelibly inscribed upon everything here below! Yet how slow are we to realize the solemn lesson: “What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!” Unconverted reader, what is your life but a vapor that passes away?and what are its pursuits but shadows; unreal, unsatisfying, evanescent? Your rank, your wealth, your honors, your pleasures, are but phantoms which appear but for a little while, and then are lost in the deeper shadow of the grave, and the still deeper and longer shadow of eternity! Oh, turn from these dreams and hallucinations, and, as a rational, accountable, immortal being, on your way to judgment, fix your mind upon your solemn, endless future! You are going to die! And, oh, when that dread hour comes, so real and appalling, how will your past life appear?
Octavius Winslow

    • THE BIBLE CAN HELP YOU TO PRAY

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    THE BIBLE CAN HELP YOU TO PRAY

    Prayer is communicating with God.

    It may be talking or listening or silence. Successful communication with God happens when . . .

    We really want to share our lives with God.

    We really want to hear what God has to say to us.

    We accept ourselves as we are — we have no illusions about ourselves as we come to him.

    We recognise God’s complete love for us. We come to him because he welcomes us.

    Let the Bible guide your prayer.

    As you explore a Bible passage make your discoveries a basis for prayer.

    PRAISE God for what he is and for what he has done. ‘Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good!’ (Psalm 106:1)

    CONFESS any failures, remembering that sin builds barriers. ‘If we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing!’ (1 John 1:9)

    TELL him your needs and pray for others. ‘With all his abundant wealth through Christ Jesus, my God will supply all your needs’ (Philippians 4:19) ASK him to help you put into practice what you have learnt. ‘If you love me, you will obey my commands.’ (John 14:15)

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