Aloha Dearest Family,
About a year ago I bought my first ‘smart phone”. Before that I had a cheap
flip phone which served my purposes quite nicely. I didn’t really use it for
anything important, just to make a phone call every once in a while. But
it was very limited. It didn’t have internet access capabilities and it had a
terrible camera. Well, after much urging and prodding on the part of my sons,
we decided to buy a new smart phone - not a very expensive one and one that
wasn’t too complicated. My wife told me that if I bought it I would need
to read the instructions and learn to use it. I said that I would.
Little did I know how extensive the instructions were for the phone that I
bought. I started from the beginning and tried to understand some of what I was
reading. Thankfully, as I kept reading, it started to make more sense and I
didn’t feel so intimidated. If I simply read the instruction manual I could
pretty much program my phone any way I felt comfortable. My sons had to help me
just a few times in showing me how to do a few things. I had now entered the
world of modern technology. Yay!!
Contrary
to popular opinion, life did not start with a “big-bang.” The “theory” that we
all evolved from amebas to fish to monkeys to humans (ridiculous) - takes a
great deal of malarkey and unprovable facts to swallow. Yet too many do swallow
it. On the other hand, if you try to teach that the universe was planned and
put in motion by a designer, you will be ridiculed and ostracized from many in
the academic and scientific circles. The truth of the matter is that God
Almighty is the originator and grand designer of all life. How do I know? God
told me so in the Bible – His instruction manual.
God
is the Creator. “In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) God being the
originator and manufacturer of life, He had to come up with a way to
communicate to His creation who they were designed to be and their purpose. So
He chose certain men, who He placed His spirit upon, to write down His Will in
words they could understand and that would communicate the purpose for mankind.
These words became the Bible we know today. The Bible not only shows us our
purpose but also reveals to us God, the Creator.
The reason
why men and women seem so lost today is that they don’t know who they were
originally designed to be. They wander around through life trying to find
meaning to their lives. This will lead them to believe philosophies and ideas
of men, who are just as lost as they are. To most, life is about acquiring
things that give them some temporary pleasure. Yet it will never fill the deep
longing in their souls. This longing can only be filled by coming to know the Creator
and finding their true purpose. They will
only find it in the pages of the Bible – true life’s guide.
As if
God’s instruction manual for mankind wasn’t enough, God sent a “factory
representative”, Jesus Christ, to show us what God’s creation was all
about. His showed us what this thing
called life could really be like. Jesus
Christ not only showed us who the designer was, but he also showed man’s
purpose as well. This is why if you want to come to God, you have to come
through God’s son. There is no other way. How do I know? It says so in the Bible.
Most
importantly, the Bible, God’s operation instructions, reveals God’s great love
for us, His creation.
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),” (Ephesians 2:4 and 5)
Love
Always, Ray
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