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Poems and Short Features
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Tools of the
Master Builder
I watched him in awe as I stood by him there,
This builder who worked with such skill—
As I saw him pick up with most infinite care
Each tool that he wished at his will.
They were many and varied, but each in its place.
Though some were strange looking and queer.
There were hammers and saws, and chisels and brace,
Tools of steel looking cold and severe.
But O what a change when the great builder chose
Just the tool for the time and the place,
For under his hand from the earth there arose
A building of beauty and grace.
What a lesson, I thought, for each child of the Lord
Of submission to God’s holy will.
He’s our great “Master-Builder” who reveals
through His Word
How he’s building his Temple with skill.
WE are the tools that he chooses to use,
Not too few or too many are there.
So when he picks you for a task, don’t refuse,
In that Temple you too have a share.
The great Master-Builder has need for each one,
Perhaps you’re the tool he doth seek.
Let us rest in his hand ’til the work is all done,
And his temple is grandly complete.
—Poems
of the Way, p. 96
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A Miracle
The number of conditions that must be fine-tuned—and the
degree of fine-tuning needed for each of these conditions—for life to possibly
survive that is manifested in this single event [a collision of a Mars-sized
body with the earth that produced the moon] argues powerfully on its own for a
divine Creator. Even if the universe contains as many as ten billion trillion
planets, we would not expect even one, by natural processes alone, to end up
with the surface gravity, surface temperature, atmospheric composition,
atmospheric pressure, crustal iron abundance, tectonics, vulcanism, rotation
rate, rate of decline in rotation rate, and stable rotation axis tilt necessary
for the support of life. To those who express the desire to see a miracle, we
can assure them they are looking at one whenever they gaze up at the moon.
—Dr. Hugh Ross, The Genesis Question,
p. 33
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