“But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.” – James 1:6
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and writer. In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.
In 1648, Pascal fell away from this initial religious upbringing and experienced a few years of what some biographers have called his "worldly period".
His doubts about God changed in 1654. On the 23 of November 1654, between 10:30 and 12:30 at night, Pascal had an intense religious experience and immediately wrote a brief note to himself which began: "Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars..." and concluded by quoting Psalm 119:16: "I will not forget thy word. Amen." He seems to have carefully sewn this document into his coat and always transferred it when he changed clothes; a servant discovered it only by chance after his death.
Doubts dispel and our faith grows strong as we yield our hearts to God’s Word. Today in prayer, look to the Lord and place every area of your life in His hands.
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” – Oswald Chambers
God’s Word: “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” – Mark 11:24
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