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Me: Look at what I am creating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Creating is great, but God’s creation is amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book Man Does Not Stand Alone by A. Cressy Morrison<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The existence of our world and mankind defies all mathematical calculations of chance! This was driven home to me many years ago when I came across an illustration from a noted scientist. As I recall, he was a former president of the New York Academy of Sciences. It went something like this: “Let’s say I have ten pennies and I mark each one with a number (one to ten), then place all ten in your pocket. I would ask you to give your pocket a good shake so the pennies are no longer in any order in your pocket. What chance would I have to reach in and pull out penny number one? One in ten. Let’s say I put the penny back. Then I reach again into your pocket and draw out penny number two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My chance of doing that would be one in a hundred. Putting the penny back, if I were to reach in and draw out penny number three, my chances would jump to one in a thousand. If I were to continue to do the same thing, in successive order, right up through number nine, do you know what my chance would be by the time I got to the number ten and pulled it out of your pocket? One in ten billion. If I pulled that off you would say, “The game is fixed!” My answer: “You’re right….and so is creation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Psalms 121:5-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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