The world that God created is full of wonders.

Salt for example is a wonder. It is composed of two poisonous substances: sodium and chlorine, either of which if taken individually could kill you. Yet when these two substances are combined they produce a substance called salt that is necessary for life.

Water is another wonder. It's chemical formula is H2O. That means two parts of hydrogen for each part oxygen. Oxygen is an oxidizer while hydrogen so readily burns that it can be explosive. Yet when hydrogen and oxygen are united into water you can use it to put out fires!

Yet the greatest wonder of all is the regeneration that takes place when one is saved. How God can take a poor, vile, hopeless sinner and transform him into a respectable person is the greatest wonder on this earth. Yet, it happens everyday. On the skid row of our cites, in the wealthy and poor homes, in jungles, in Chinese houseboats; in fact, whenever any soul will accept Christ, the wonder of the new birth is taking place. That's the real miracle of God's creation.

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When Jacob de Shazer went as one of Jimmy Doolittle's raiders on Japan the day of April 18, 1942, he was an atheist. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. He saw two of his companions shot by a firing squad. He saw another die of slow starvation.

During the long months he pondered the question of why the Japanese hated him and why he hated them. He began to recall some of the thing he had heard about Christianity.

Boldly he asked his jailers if they could get him a Bible. At first the laughed boisterously, as at a good joke, and grew ugly and warned him to stop making a nuisance of himself. But he kept asking.

A year and a half later - May 1944 a guard brought him a Bible, flung it at him, and said, "Three weeks you have. Three week, then I take away."

True to his word, in three weeks the guard took the Bible away, and de Shazer never saw it again.

In 1948 de Shazer, his wife, and infant son were on their way back to Japan as missionaries, all because he asked for a Bible and a Japanese guard gave him one for three weeks. - H. Fickeet

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