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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Perpetual Motion...

One of the people I really admire in my congregation came up today after our bible study and announced wryly that he had come to understand perpetual motion - that is, that he understood for the first time that there truly was a living, working pertetual motion machine.

Prayer.

I loved it. The more you pray, the more you pray.

What a perfect picture that is. Thanks Don!

posted by Daniel @ 2:05 PM

5 Comments:

At 7:34 PM, January 15, 2006, marc said…

Thats really good.
At 8:26 PM, January 15, 2006, Daniel said…

It -is- isn't it?
At 7:45 AM, January 19, 2006, étrangère said…

Um, is yet indwelling sin not friction in this otherwise perpetual motion?

I think there's always the resistant 'force' of sin and the persistant contrary 'force' of grace.

Although I see the truth in it, I don't think there'll be truly perpetual motion until the new heavens & new earth. Not that friction is all bad... Bother me for a scientific pedant *wanders off scratching head*
At 8:51 AM, January 19, 2006, Daniel said…

Surely one must allow for the friction of sin, else we would all pray without ceasing...

;-D
At 12:40 PM, January 19, 2006, étrangère said…

Haha. "Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer." (Bunyan) Now there's a motion...