One area where we do agree is this: you say that science is ever evolving and we may never know all the answers. God is the same way…not evolving, but rather He’s so HUGE and unfathomable, that with our limited minds, we cannot und…erstand Him fully, nor will we in this short lifetime we have on planet earth. That’s why we have eternity. Let me close this portion with this: Suppose you reach the end of your life and when you die, you discover that you were absolutely right. You go into oblivion or whatever…so, you have lost nothing, nor have you gained anything. Suppose I reach the end of my life and realize I’ve been living a complete delusion my entire life and I go into oblivion or whatever….I have lost nothing either. However, what have I gained? Love, joy, peace, relationships that have been meaningful and incredible beyond words, I’ve been able to travel the world, impact 1000s of young people through teaching and counseling them in their lives so that they get to live lives that are full of meaning and joy, etc. Now, let’s say I reach the end of my life and it turns out I’m “right” and everything I believe is true. I’ve gained everything listed above, which takes on even more meaning because it’s not simply about life on this earth, but for eternity as well, AND, I’ve gained eternal life with God. Back to you: you reach the end of your life and it turns out you are wrong. Not only have you lost eternity spent with God, but you have missed out on the fullness of life here on earth because you lived believing a lie. Because I believe that God is love, I also believe that an eternity separated from God is an eternity separated from any form of love whatsoever, and seeing as a human life-span is a small blip on the screen of eternity (even according to evolutionists time frames) an eternity spent separated from any sort of love is quite a long time. This argument I just presented is known as Pascal’s wager….the great mathemetician, so it is not my own. It is something worth considering though in light of all of our discussions up to this point.

Come unto me all who are weary and burdened, I shall give you rest (Matt: 11:28).

When Jesus says, “I will give you rest,” he calls us to get refreshment from him in order to be able to perform in the world. He means not only strength but being relieved of our anxieties. He is calling us with sorrow, burdened with struggles of life and sin.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. 3 For, see, the days come, said the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4 And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

5 For thus said the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

8 For it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, said the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, see, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

11 For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.

12 For thus said the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.

13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.

14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.

15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey on you will I give for a prey.

17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, said the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

18 Thus said the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the middle of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach to me? said the LORD.

22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain on the head of the wicked.

24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.

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