Today is Wednesday, January 5th, 2011; Karen's Korner #1983

 
Taken from "In God We Still Trust", a 365-day devotional by Dr. Richard G. Lee. An entry from several days ago:
 
True History or Fraud?
 
"If Christ is not risen, your faith is futile.
~ I Corinthians 15:17
 
"Hear the confident declaration of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852):
 
'The Gospel is either true history, or it is a consummate fraud; it is either a reality or an imposition. Christ was what He professed to be, or He was an imposter. There is no other alternative. His spotless life in His earnest enforcement of the truth--His suffering in its defense, forbid us to suppose that He was suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of His pure and holy life shows that He was the author of truth, the advocate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncompromising sufferer for truth. Now, considering the purity of His doctrines, the simplicity of His life, and the sublimity of His death, is it possible that He would have died for an illusion? In all His preaching the Savior made no popular appeals. His discourses were always directed to the individual. Christ and His apostles sought to impress upon every man the conviction that he must stand or fall alone--he must live for himself and die for himself, and give up his account to the omniscient God as thought he were the only dependent creature in the universe. The Gospel leaves the individual sinner alone with himself and his God.'
 
Gracious Father, thank You for sending Jesus to die for sinners, myself among them.
 
"In Isaiah 9:6, God promised to send His Son. 'His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace'. Promise fulfilled!
 
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