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July 15
The Great Kingdom of God’s Goodness
Beneath the
plains of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas is an ancient and vast
underground deposit of pure water. It is the largest such deposit of fresh
water in the world. It is called the "Ogallala Aquifer" after a tribe
of high plains Indians who lived over the great subterranean sea. They never
even knew it was there. But today, the Ogallala Aquifer is so important that by
pumping it onto the crops that overlie it, literally billions of humans around
the world have been fed by its pure source of life-giving substance. Scientists
say it was deposited there by the great glaciers of a past ice age eons ago.
Such a truth
applies to the lives of seven billion people living on Earth this very day.
Just beneath perception's reach lies a vast and ancient Kingdom of goodness and
light. And it is ruled by the King of all Creation Who is the Lord Master of
His eternal children. He is described in a manuscript that was penned more than
3,500 years ago. It says of Him, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth..." (Exodus
34:6 KJV)
Just because they cannot see it with their eyes,
many deny this Kingdom of goodness and light’s very existence. And yet it lies
there waiting to give life in all of its purity. It has the capacity to breathe
eternal meaning into billions of lives. It does not “represent” goodness – it is goodness because of its Great and
Everlasting King. This great Kingdom is the hope of the world; it is the
foundation of eternity; it is the great and everlasting fountain of life for
all who will pause, humbly kneel before it, and freely drink their fill!
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