The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim");
document.writeln("the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night");
document.writeln("they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not");
document.writeln("heard.1
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document.writeln("In A Slice of Infinity Betsy Childs writes, \'Are you sitting down? If");
document.writeln("so, you may be under the impression that you are also sitting still, but the");
document.writeln("fact is that you are in rapid motion. I am referring to the earth\'s rotation. In");
document.writeln("the course of a day, our planet rotates at the brisk rate of 1000 miles per");
document.writeln("hour at the equator. Then there is the earth\'s orbital rate of rotation. We have");
document.writeln("to travel roughly 67,000 miles an hour to make it all the way around the sun in");
document.writeln("a year. Are you feeling any motion sickness yet? I could hardly be more");
document.writeln("stationary than I am right now as I sit here before my computer, but in spite");
document.writeln("of the fact that I do not feel like I am moving, I know that I am. I see the");
document.writeln("effects every day in the setting and rising of the sun.\'2
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I have never seen electricity but I know it exists because of its numerous");
document.writeln("effects seen every day in lighting, heating, cooling, running all sorts of");
document.writeln("equipment\'”and in thousands of other ways! I do not know anyone who does not believe in the rotation of the earth or in electricity even though we cannot see");
document.writeln("either of these, but many say they do not believe in God because they have not");
document.writeln("seen him or they cannot feel his presence.
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document.writeln("If we want to believe in God, we will see evidence of his existence everywhere");
document.writeln("we look. As the Bible says, \'The heavens declare the glory of God.\' And as");
document.writeln("Helen Keller said, \'There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.\' Basically,");
document.writeln("we all see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, remember what we");
document.writeln("want to remember, and believe in what we want to believe in. To believe or not");
document.writeln("to believe in God is perhaps more often than not a moral choice. If we choose");
document.writeln("to believe in God, we know we are morally responsible. If we choose not to");
document.writeln("believe in God, we deceive ourselves into thinking we can live as we please");
document.writeln("without any consequences. Our disbelief in God does not alter His reality any");
document.writeln("more than refusing to believe in electricity and grabbing hold of a");
document.writeln("high-voltage electric wire. Both come with serious consequences! God is offering");
document.writeln("his unconditional love and eternal salvation\'¦ will you choose to receive it?
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document.writeln("Suggested prayer: Dear God, please open the eyes of my understanding so that I");
document.writeln("will see the reality of Your existence and genuinely choose to believe in and");
document.writeln("serve You. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.
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document.writeln("1. Psalm 19:1-3 (NIV).
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document.writeln("2. A Slice of Infinity, \'The Invisible Pull\' by Betsy Childs. © 2006");
document.writeln("Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. All Rights Reserved.
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document.writeln("Today\'s Encounter was written by: Crystal B.
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