25/12/2020
Daniel Chapter 2 tells us that KNOWLEDGE without God is useless. POWER and AUTHORITY without God is dangerous and deadly. BEAUTY and GRANDEUR without God will be meaningless.
ONE man with God Offers HOPE.
"We are never going to really meet with God unless we are prepared to be led into the wilderness. The wilderness is the place of judgement. It is the place where all the little gods in which we put our trust – money, status, strength, beauty, education, fitness, entertainment, hard work, the mobile phone, music, family – are taken away. It is the place where all the little goals that we give ourselves become rather meaningless and no point in trying to prove – to the world, to our family, to ourselves - that we are somebody, that we are important because in the wilderness WE ARE NOT. We find ourselves stripped naked and we are brought face to face with ourselves: with our sinfulness, our pride, our inability to really love, the desires that overwhelm us, our sheer pathetic helplessness and our mortality. It is when we are in the wilderness that we begin to hear the word that comes from God: that we are beloved, that there is one we can turn to for help, that we can change and that we will be changed, that we have a hope and a future."