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Brother Bob Pellien: When it's time to make a choice, who do you ask for advice? Family? Friends? Have you considered asking the One who has all the answers? After all, God created us, so He knows what's best for us. Right?

You're listening to the podcast version of God’s Message magazine and today's topic is: “Let God direct our lives.”

You know, it seems ironic that the world's lone superpower has 40 million of its citizens living in poverty. 40 million! That's more the entire population of Canada, and more than one and a half times that of the Australian continent.

“The United States of America,” wrote Philip Alston of the United Nations, “is one of the world's richest and most powerful and technologically innovative countries, but neither its wealth, nor its power, nor its technology is being harnessed to address the situation in which 40 million Americans continue to live in poverty.” The Guardian online, dated December 15th, 2017.

Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the United Nations World Food Programme revealed that, for the first time in a decade, the number of people suffering hunger is back on the rise. That’s a quote from the Hurriyet Daily News online, December 17th, 2017. He disclosed that the number of people who go to bed hungry each night has risen from 777 million to 815 million today. What's going on?

Although man has made great strides in food production and technology, hundreds of millions today are still suffering from chronic malnutrition. Around 22,000 children die daily due to starvation, according to UNICEF. And despite huge scientific breakthroughs in health and medicine, millions still die from various diseases and plagues.

It is quite obvious that, despite man's persistent efforts to improve his life and living conditions, his lot does not seem to get any better. Why? Mortals cannot run their own lives.

It is, mortals cannot run their own lives.

Is it within man's power to take charge of his life and put it in order? Can he chart his own course and steer his life toward a good end? The Bible answers, 

I know, GOD, that mere mortals can't run their own lives, That men and women don't have what it takes to take charge of life.

[Jeremiah 10:23, The Message]

Man on his own is incapable of running his own life. The Bible further illustrates his inability to take charge of his life by pointing out how completely oblivious he is of what lies before him. I quote the scriptures again: 

A person never knows what will happen to him next. He is like a fish caught in a net. The fish does not know what will happen. He is like a bird caught a trap. The bird does not know what will happen. In the same way, a person is trapped by the bad things that suddenly happen to him.

[Ecclesiastes 9:12, Easy to Read Version]

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