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Show t REV. ROBERT H. HARPER 't What We Know About God. Lesson for Feb. 1: Isaiah 40:28-31; 40:28-31; John 14:8-14. Memory Selection: Hebrews 11:6. An old Philosopher said, "Know thyself." But can he truly know himself if he does not know God? The first passage of the lesson tells us several things about God it indicates in-dicates that he is the eternal Crea- tor, and that he is omniscient, omnipotent, omni-potent, and all good. His omnipresence omnipres-ence is also suggested in the statement state-ment of the good things he is ready to do for men. They that wait for Jehovah and wait upon him shall renew then-strength, then-strength, mount up with wings as eagles, run and not be weary. An old railway conductor took the latter lat-ter part of the passage to be a prophecy of the railroad. Mounting up with wings as eagles will at least suggest the airplane. But the writer writ-er was doubtless referring to the rejuvenating re-juvenating effect of receiving the divine help his words were figurative figura-tive and not literal. Certainly we can expect help for the evcry-day when we look to God. Now blessed things we may learn about God through Christ, in whom he has manifested himself. In answer an-swer to Philip's plea that they be shown the Father, Jesus said they had seen the Father in himself. John writes about the Word becoming becom-ing flesh. Through his Word, God expresses his will for men and reveals re-veals himself. So Jesus shows us who God is and what we through Jesus may become. And Jesus promised that even greater things than he had wrought on earth could be done in his name. He was going back to heaven, he said the inference being that time would bring greater and greater .hings through faith. |