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It is clear now that there is no simple, one-two-three answer to the parents of the children killed in the bus accident, the wife of the corporal, the rioting Indian families, or the victim of the concentration camp. But it should also be clear that there are resources within Biblical faith for meeting these situations, facing up to them, living with them, and transforming them by faith, rather than being transformed by them into despair.
The job of the Christian is not to have a "ready answer" for every situation, but to have a total approach to life, gained from encounter with God, that enables him to live with, and conquer, every situation.
(Who Am I?)
When the hall of philosophy in a large university was being built, there was a controversy over the inscription to be carved above the main entrance. One group wanted the statement of Protagoras, "Man is the measure of all things." Another group held out for the words of the Eighth Psalm, addressed to God, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?"
There is all the difference in the world between those two conceptions of man. In the first, man is the center of everything. In the second, God is the center of everything. Who is right? What is man?
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