ords create powerful images.

How we ‘picture things’ can be ‘empowering and encouraging, or can wound us deeply and ‘delude our minds’ and cause us to live a life of ‘defeat’ instead of ‘being all we can be for and in Christ!

Those of you who know me well, or who tolerate knowing me, and have read the things I write of spiritual matters, and my life, and my ‘battles’ with my ‘self-nature’ or ‘sin-nature’—–and have witnessed when I am ‘being defeated—-generally due to my own pride or rebellion’ (though certainly complicated by Satan’s attack as he is the ‘enemy’)—-and those of you especially close can certainly readily perceive my wounds or defeat as expressed by my actions, my mouth, or attitudes in that ‘snapshot’ of the moment—-but ‘praise the Lord’ also have certainly witnessed too the victories in me of the Lord’s love (through His Holy Spirit who indwells me) in encouraging and empowering me to battle with and also to overcome my ‘flesh’—-and shown by the reflection of His love through me in those moments or snapshots of my life—-which without a doubt certainly presents the fact that there is a ‘battle’ ongoing in which I am involved!

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Excerpts of poetry by George West Frazer, who went to the Lord Jan. 24,1896:

1) God’s house is filling fast—

“Yet there is room!”

Some soul will be the last–

“Yet there is room!”

Yes, soon Salvation’s day

From you will pass away,

Then grace will no more say–

“Yet there is room!”

2) Down to the depths of Woe

Christ came to set me free:

He bared His breast,

Received the blow,

Which justice aimed at me!

3) On that same night, Lord Jesus,

When all around Thee joined

To cast its darkest shadow

Across Thy holy mind,

We hear Thy voice, blest Savior,

“This do, remember Me!”

With joyful hearts responding,

We do remember Thee.

Deserted! God could separate from His own essence rather;

And Adam’s sins have swept between the righteous Son and Father;

Yea, once, Immanuel’s orphaned cry His universe hath shaken——

It went up single, echoless, “My God, I am forsaken!”

It went up from His holy lips, amid His lost creation

That no believer e’er should use those words of desolation.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Low at Thy feet, Lord Jesus,

This is the place for me;

Here I have learned deep lessons,

Truth that has set me free.

Free from myself Lord Jesus,

Free from the ways of men;

Chains of thought that have bound me,

Never bind again.

None but Thyself, Lord Jesus,

Conquered this wayward will,

But for Thy love constraining,

I had been wayward still.

(Found in a man’s bible after he died.)

By Russell M. Grigg in Creation Magazine,  www.AnswersInGenesis.org

We now know that if Darwin could have foreseen coming scientific developments, he would have had good reason to be concerned that his theory might one day be proved wrong.

In particular, Gregor Mendel had not yet established and published his work on the laws of heredity and genetics, which said that the characteristics of offspring are passed on from parents according to precise mathematical ratios and do not derive from chance random processes in what Darwin called “blending inheritance.”

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