This is where challenging fate

comes in. But the challenge must come from within. We hear about people

"coming up the hard way" and struggling to survive. Everybody

has their misfortunes and makes their monumental blunders each day. Although

it appears often that the odds are against us, even if you are fighting

what seems to be a losing cause, don't give up!

Future and final victory is

assured whether the earth is removed and even if heaven and earth pass

away. Our fate was sealed some 2000 years ago at the Cross. It is a love

from before the beginning of time and, anyway you look at it, there is

a God who cares. We can't thwart His eternal purposes no matter how hard

we try. All we can do is bow down on our knees and worship. We can challenge

fate because of the One Who controls our destiny. "Christ our God,

to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise."

Norm J. Barlow

Fayetteville