Note Card: The Reasons for Things

Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.


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When God prepared to make man, there surely were many ways he could have made him.  He could have made the whole creation in any way he wanted.  He did not have to make an earth with a sunrise and sunset, man with hunger, sleep, thirst needs.  Living creatures with procreational abilities.  And so on.  But he did make all things as we discovered them to be, and the reason for them is more important than the fact of them, just as the reason for the things he said is more important then the bare fact that he said them. We must inquire as to why God made things as he did or we will pass through life never putting things together. 
 

Man that is in honor and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish—how low can people be not to see that the way of a man with a maid is instruction in the purposes of God toward his people? Can people even discern the face of the sky?  Much less the signs of the times!  And how remote the nature of things reflecting the Creator’s image, purposes, desires, etc.  If the universe has no known end, how much less God?  Not to the blind!  The reader must not rest short of looking for instruction in nature.  God instructed Job from it.

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Sooner or later we must arrive at conclusions for the reasons of things; we cannot remain undecided forever, though it is better not to conclude than to conclude wrong.