Show Abundant Living God Gad Guides Through Opportunity By E. E Stanley JonesI Jones 7 I Cor 29 II U Cor Rev 38 I 1 Cor 8 12 We Ve come to the next step in guidance 4 4 God guides through opening matching us against some opening opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op or heed ced A little waif boy of the streets of London sidled up to a doctor and said Do youse want to see sec where wese live He took the doctor by the hand and led him into alleyways where boys slept in boxes and under steps huddled together to together together to- to gether to keep one another warm Before morning that doctor knew he belonged to those boys and went out and set setup up Dr Barnardo's homes through which thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of boys have been blessed Gods God's guidance was the opening of the doctors doctor's eyes to see a need If God lets you see a aneed aneed need the seeing of it Is His invitation for you ou to meet that need 5 God guides through natural law lawand lawand lawand and its discoveries through science We Ve have a primary faith in revelation and a secondary faith in science But in a sense science is revelation revelation God God speaking to us through the natural order That natural order is Gods God's order It is dependable be because because because be- be cause God is dependable He worl works s by bylaw bylaw bylaw law and order rather than by whim and notion and fancy There was a time when ae a tried tried to put God in the unexplained gaps In nature nature we we said God must be there for these gaps are mysterious and unexplainable But when science began to fillup fill fillup fillup up these gaps God was pushed out To have relegated God to those gaps was a mistake for God reveals Himself in the very law and order and the explainable facts of nature and not merely in the unexplainable unexplainable un- un explainable and the mysterious The law lawand lawand and order express God far more than the unexplainable and mysterious For this very law and order is of God God He He is in it is the author of it works through it but butis butis butis is not strait-jacketed strait by it For this law lawand lawand lawand and order is full of surprises and of or free free- doms A closed system of nature is now unscientific God guides through science Accept that fact To expect to be guided by the revelations revelations revelations of science makes you open-minded open to life around you as well us as to life above you O 0 God whose will is wrought into the natural order and who who who- by that very order art disciplining us to lawful orderly living living living liv liv- ing help us to accept and rejoice in that discipline For Thy disciplines are our free free- doms Help us to accept Thy laws which have become our liberties In Jesus' Jesus name Amen From From the book Abundant Living published by Abingdon Cokesbury Abingdon-Cokesbury Cokesbury Press Copyright |