Odyssey

In a scene from a film adaptation of The Odyssey, Odysseus is at the brink of death in a storm. He yells at Poseidon, who is creating the storm. "What do you want me to learn?!"

Poseidon responds: "That without the gods, man is nothing!"

When Moses was called as a prophet, the Lord showed him all of creation. It must have been such an incredible experience. When the Lord was done, and Moses was left to his own strength, he fell down on the earth and couldn't get up for several hours. When he was finally able to stand, he said this: "Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed."

Sometimes life can be difficult. This is not to say that God causes the difficult things that happens in our lives. But he may allow them so that we will turn to Him. When the difficult times come to us in life, we can be like Moses and remember our strong foundation. When Satan tempted him and called him a son of man, telling him to worship the son of Perdition, he said, "Who art thou? For I am a son of God."

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Remember the words of your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto his holy name by night. Let your hearts rejoice.