Daily Bible Studies
Shortly after the death of Blaise Pascal in 1662, a housekeeper was sorting through closets and clothing and happened to notice something sewn into Pascal's coat. Beneath the cloth was a parchment and inside this was another faded piece of paper. In Pascal's handwriting, on both the parchment and the paper were nearly the same words. Beside hand-drawn crosses, Pascal had carefully written:
"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (I Peter 1:13
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"The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing" (Psalm 65:13).
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In the eyes of an eight-year-old, the most wonderful thing about Lake Michigan was grandpa's boat. Sailing was a hobby of his and I was a glad participant. A particularly rare treat was spending the night on the boat, gently being rocked to sleep by the bobbing waves and steady clanking of metal against mast. My grandpa tried to show me the Milky Way, directing my eyes by way of the North Star. He told us the meaning of the boat's name, a word that sounded funny at the time. "Nomad," he said, "is the word for a wanderer, a drifting, homeless traveler." Feeling like the darkened sky could swallow me up in seconds, under the stars, I felt the same.
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"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" (Philippians 4:8).
This American Life ran a special report following the lives of several people currently living what they unequivocally call "Plan B." Host Ira Glass expounds his thoughts on an informal poll and a seemingly universal human reality. He asked a room of hundred people to think back to the beginning of adulthood when they were first formulating a plan for their lives. He called it Plan A: "the fate you were sure fate had in store." He then asked those who were still following this plan to raise their hands. Only one person confessed she was still living Plan A; she was 23 years old.
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"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:29).
"We demand windows," said C.S. Lewis speaking of the role of literature in our lives. Why occupy our time and hearts with accounts of characters and events that are not real? Why enter vicariously into the fictional life of one who behaves in ways we wouldn't or shouldn't? Lewis explains, "We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own.... We demand windows. Literature as Logos is a series of windows, even of doors...."(1)
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The demise of truth began at the fall of our first parents. Adam was given a
task that would require the development of knowledge--zoology and
horticulture, no less! He was required to classify all of the creatures and
vegetation God had created. In going about this task, Adam did not question
his sense perceptions, nor did he question that he was a creature of God
himself. He began with God at the foundation of his knowledge and worked
accordingly.
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