Putting a New Slant on an Old View

    
There are a few concepts that I would like to consider today from a totally different perspective than that which is normal.  Albert Einstein once challenged a professor on three separate concepts that would be of value for us to consider today.  By no means are these thoughts original with me but credit goes total and completely to Mr. Einstein. 
     Mr. Einstein challenged his professor by making the statement that there was no such thing as darkness.  He suggested that darkness only existed as an absence of light.  You can have bright light, dim light, or even brilliant light but when you had no light all that was left was darkness.  He made the same argument about heat and cold.   There is no actual thing or even a measuring scale for what we call cold.  When you consider heat you can easily imagine all of the varying degrees of heat.  You can have high heat, low heat, warm heat, extreme heat, etch. but when you have no heat you have cold.  We measure heat by British thermal units (btu's) or degrees.  You can even go down to a point of -458 degrees F.  That is where all movement of molecules cease, the lower range of heat.  Why can it get no colder, because there is no more heat to be lost.
     Of particular interest to me, especially coming from Mr. Einstein, was his discussion of evil.  When he was confronted with the statement that God created evil therefore God must be evil, he countered with the argument that evil did not exist by itself; that evil was not present as an entity unto itself.  He argued that what we see of evil in this world, is not that which was the design of God but what was left in the absence of God.  Which is another way of presenting that God is love, but when his love is rejected what you have left is  the wrath of God.  It is as simple as flipping a coin--you get heads or tails.  When you deal with God you get--His wrath or His love.  The choice is up to the individual.

It's Friday Now, But Sunday is Coming

     The title, It's Friday Now, But Sunday Is Coming, is a sermon that has been attributed to different preachers down through the years.  I would like to think it may have been preached first by Dr. S. M. Lockridge, one of the greatest black preachers I have ever had the blessing of hearing.  The sermon is regularly preached on Palm Sunday and describes all of the events that happened on the day Jesus was crucified.
     The impact of the sermon is so dramatic in that it contrasts what happened on that day with what happened on the following Sunday.  It's Friday now, Satan is in control, but Sunday is coming.  It should serve as a warning to everyone who is living their life without God, that things may seem great today, but there is a payday coming.  At the same time those who may be struggling with problems in their life and have a strong faith in God.  It's Friday now, but Sunday is coming.  Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh.