The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

II Corinthians 10:12, “For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. 13 But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.”

The world’s most renound theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, is dead. By worldly standards, Hawking ranked with Einstein in a discipline incomprehensible to most of us. What is a “theoretical physicist”? News

reports state Hawking as having said the following:

“The only certainty about the infinitesimally small quantum building blocks of our universe is that they are uncertain… “Simply observing them can cause them to change. They can be in two places — or two states — at once… “They seem to be a physical embodiment of probability and potential: elements of reality that haven’t quite yet decided what they’re going to do…“While it dictates our lives, we still don’t know what time is. Or exactly where it comes from…We know how it works. We know its effects. It’s like gravity…. ”It doesn’t entirely seem to fit in the ‘big’ world of the physics we experience, nor the ‘weird’ world of the subatomic…. But, like the strange behavior of quantum physics, perhaps time has a lot more left to tell.”

Several years ago, I read Dr. Hawkins’ celebrated book, A Brief History of Time. At that time, he said,

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.”

Yet, he vacillated, giving one theory one time, and another at another time. Why was this a problem to him?

It was a problem because he had omitted God from all his calculations.

Those who omit God from anything will always be “without understanding.” Paul is unwilling to boast about

things he doesn’t know; but he is adamant about what he does know: “God has appointed us…to reach…as

far as you.”

We are not “know-it-alls.” We never will be in this life. But, we are to know what the LORD has enabled us

to know and to share it with those who don’t know. Remember the little verse?

Only one life; it will soon be past;

Only what’s done for Christ will last.

We prayerfully rejoice over your faith in Christ,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”