LEBANON
Ahmed is 15. He is too old, too worldly wise for that age. The Time reporter tells us: “The saddest thing Ahmed has ever seen, he says, is the sight of children without their parents. In the Fakhani Street air raid last summer, he came upon three such children wandering dazed in the streets. He took them to his house, where they lived until a home was found for them. Yes, he does feel older than 15. ‘Because I do a job greater than myself’ “He is asked if he believes in God; his yes is awed. Is his faith at all shaken when he sees something like the devastation of yesterday’s explosion? ‘Do you think: How could God allow such a thing to happen?’ His answer is like Elizabeth’s in Belfast: ‘No. There is no relationship between God and the people who do such things. Man does his work, God his.'” I also preached on the affirmation of I Peter 1. In…
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