Why a sovereign God spares some and allows others to face the fire is something that we will never fully understand this side of heaven. That fact was again illustrated on the morning of September 11 when the World Trade Center was destroyed.
Have you ever asked yourself, “What causes a criminal to think as he or she does?” What makes a person think a crooked line is straight and a straight line is crooked?
When William MacKay left for college, his mother gave him a Bible. On the front page of the Bible, she did an inscription, "To W.P. [as he preferred to be called] from your mother" and wrote the date.
One of the amazing things about life is the fact that we know so little about some things which are very common, and we take those things for granted--not sensing how very important they are to our survival.