“When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his fellow Israelites. Acts 7:23 For forty years the boy who had been pulled from the reeds of the Nile lived in the house of Pharaoh and was educated in the ways of the world, but all the time knowing …
It is an astounding declaration for the creator of all things to make concerning a portion of His creation, “…every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time” (Gen. 6:5). There could be no more abject appraisal of the human condition at any time. God …
“After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark.” Gen. 8:6 For forty days and for forty nights the storm raged, the waters rose and the once thriving earth was ravaged. Not since the earth had been “formless and void,” not since the “darkness was over …
There is, between the wanting and the doing, between the strength of His Sprit and the weakness of our wills, a hope of participation in His sufferings. Despite our own desires for personal gain and personal pleasure we cannot escape the reality that it is in the caldron of trials …