My unadulterated admiration for both you and your wife.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: John W. Burgeson <johnburgeson@juno.com>
> To: grmorton@waymark.net; EVOLUTION@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Glenn wrote: a clarification
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 2:55 PM
>
> >> Going that route means to me a lack of certainty.
> >>
>
> Precisely so, my good friend.
>
> IMHO, if you seek "certainty" on mankind's terms, you will always be
> chasing a will-o-the-wisp!
>
> Glenn -- we deal here with the supernatural. Human rules just don't
> apply. God's rules, of which we have only a faint glimmer, do. The
> "certainty" I claim does not come from my own research, study,
> meditation, prayer, logic or anything else I can do. It comes from God's
> Holy Spirit working in me to assure me, without fear of missing
> something, that I am, indeed, "imago dei." That "working in me," as many
> other Christians will recognize, happens best when I am either "about
> God's business" in some way, or studying the Scriptures, or taking
> communion. Other events also seem to apply -- I have been involved at
> foot washing ceremonies on several, perhaps a dozen, times; it works
> there too.
>
> My chief criticism of my more conservative brethren is that they (you)
> seem sometimes to strive more after a "certainty based on human
> reasoning" than on a certainty based on what God is trying to do.
>
> One of the several ministries my wife is involved in is holding Sunday
> School classes for "developmentally challenged adults." Last Sunday I was
> present when one of these individuals, who probably has an IQ (whatever
> that might mean) of 50 or so, was asked to pray. I had not heard him do
> so before. His words and thoughts were on a very simple level. His prayer
> was one I felt went far beyond my own, often wordy, attempts. No "logic"
> or "reasoning" or even "human understanding" there -- but a simple
> child-like relationship with his Lord -- and my Lord -- and your Lord.
> He, and I, and you, are all "imago dei," children of God. Which of us has
> the more profound faith? I wonder.
>
> Burgy
>
> May you love the Lord so much, that you love nothing else too much.
>
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