Welcome to Toward The Mark
A Magazine for Young Christians of All Ages
Inside This Issue:   Milk |  Meat |  Exercise |  Rest |  Questions & Answers | 
The Hope of Day
 |  Believing and Understanding |

Current Issue

Back Issues

About This Issue

Contact Us

O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Deuteronomy 3:24

null
null
null
null
audioteaching.org

null
Bible Book & Tract Depot
null
null
 

Milk: The Tabernacle (Click to View Article)

"The New Testament does not recognize a special caste of priests, or laymen for that matter. Now there is a common priesthood of all believers."

Meat: Mr. Darby and World Politics
(Click to View Article)

"J. N. Darby demonstrated that one needs to take into account the dispensations in order to understand the Bible properly, especially prophecy and the truth of the church... What does all this have to do, then, with the present situation in the Middle East?"

Exercise: Heaven's Heroes (Click to View Article)

"...faithful men and women today can prove precisely the same resource as Jeremiah. That resource is God’s Holy Word. When God speaks emphatically to men in the Old Testament, the formula is sometimes "thus saith the Lord!"

Rest: God’s Best – Choosing a Marriage Partner
(Part 4)
(Click to View Article)

"Let us take care to keep ourselves from the world's temptation by avoiding the display of the human body. This evil is all around us. Let's ensure that we give no room for the flesh by unsuitable dress and behaviour."

Questions and Answers?
Click to View Article)

"How can you justify the trinity, when God is one? And how can you call Jesus Lord, when the Old Testament says there is no other Lord but God?"

Ask a question! Click here!

The Hope of Day
(Click to View Article)

"The heart is satisfied, can ask no more;

All thought of self is now for ever o’er;

Christ, its unmingled Object, fill the heart

In blest adoring love- its endless part."

Believing and Understanding

Some people refuse to believe the Bible because they cannot understand it. “Why should we suffer for Adam’s sin?” they ask. “How could God create a universe out of nothing?” Now while there may be things we do not understand, this should not upset us. It isn’t necessary to comprehend them; all we need to do is believe what God says. After all, there are many things we do not understand; yet we accept them. Few know exactly how these bodies of ours operate from day to day. I can’t explain how in a few brief hours the meat, potatoes, bread, lettuce, and pie which I ate for dinner can all be mysteriously changed into muscle, nerves, bones, blood, hair, and nails. However, this doesn’t prevent me from eating! If it did, I would soon starve to death. Nor do I understand electricity; however, I do know what it does, and so I make it work for me. Who can completely and accurately define sight, taste, or feeling? We could go on to prove that we really do not understand many things, and yet we accept their reality and appreciate their benefits.

How foolish man can be! He rejects the truth of God because he can’t understand it, while at the same time he accepts the word of man which he also fails to comprehend. He accepts man’s word regarding material matters, but doubts God’s Word about eternal things. Mysteries of physiology, science, and astronomy do not stagger him, but when it comes to spiritual realities, he must know the exact reason for everything, and insists on calling the eternal God into account concerning His sovereign Word. What folly!

Remember, God doesn’t expect you to understand everything He says, but He does want you to believe His Word. “If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater” (1 Jn. 5:9). How strange it is that many can traverse the rocky road to perdition without difficulty; yet they stumble over a feather if it happens to lie on the pathway to Heaven.

Give us your feedback: Click Here.