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  Sometimes God will tell us to do something, and we won't have the slightest idea why He is telling us to do it.  There may not be anything happening around us that would make the instruction make sense.  We may look at what He has told us to do and think, “What does this have to do with anything?”  But God knows things we don't know, and He sees things we cannot see. He can see what is coming long before it ever becomes visible to us. Let me give you a fictional example. Suppose there is a woman named Ruth who is helping her father with some of his business affairs.  One day, while she is going through some papers, she has a strong inkling that she needs to make a copy of one particular document and keep it somewhere safe.  At that time, there was no argument going on.  Nobody has questioned the document.  Nobody has asked her for a copy.  As far as Ruth can tell, there is absolutely no reason she needs to do this.  But she does it...

  There is something almost ironic about that old song, “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” from the musical Hair . The music was written by Galt MacDermot, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and the famous recording by The 5th Dimension was released in 1969 . The song looked toward an imagined coming age of harmony and understanding, as though Mankind were moving into a brighter and more enlightened future. But if that song were rewritten for the world in which we are living today, I think its opening would have to say something very different: “Harmony and understanding have been thrown under the bus for ignorance and hatred.” That may sound humorous, but there is something very serious underneath it. The peaceful age that Mankind imagined it could create for itself has not arrived. Instead, we are watching a world that is increasingly divided, anxious, angry, uncertain, and perplexed about where everything is going. The strange thing is that this is happening at a tim...