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Research Paper On Hugo Grotios

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Tuesdays are without doubt spectacular. I gets to spend these special days with 13 spontaneous two year old children. They begin to arrive around 9:15. There are the few who never put up a fight or fuss, the few who are unpredictable and the many who need to be surgically removed from moms’ hip. I zip around serving as a fruit loop dispenser, a diaper changer, a nose wiper, a singer of songs and a live Barbie doll. Not to mention a wrestling match referee and a rescuer of stranded mountain climbers who despise coming down. In the midst of all the pandemonium there is structured play. The children who have a plan and a goal. The most common plan for this age seems to be “If I follow the boy with the truck long enough …show more content…

I suggest we use this tip from Hugo Grotios who said “He knows not how to rule a kingdom that cannot manage a province: nor can he wield a province that cannot order a city, nor he order a city that knows not how to regulate a village; nor can that man govern well a family that knows not how to govern himself: neither can any govern himself unless his reason be Lord, will and appetite her vassals, nor can reason rule unless herself be ruled by God and (wholly) be obedient to him." In other words learn that God is your ultimate guide in life, you cannot govern yourself or anything greater without his guidance. Couple this with Psalms 127 "Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders’ labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—for he grants sleep to those he loves." Now we have a pretty solid speculation as to who we should allow to run the show. Is it THAT easy? It’s a decision we make with the breaking of every new dawn. Will I make decision based on what I want and what I believe the end result will be or will I choose to make decisions based on the plans of the ultimate builder? In order to live in the shelter of the almighty, to rest in his blessings and to receive the gifts he has prepared for us we must submit ourselves to him and raise our standards to his. Take for example the stunning events that are recorded in Daniel chapter one. Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, captives in a foreign land they knew what they represented by the one true God. They made a stand and inquired of the chief official that they might be allowed to refuse the meat place before them on a trial basis, knowing that the meat would defile them. The official allowed this and in verse 17 and 18 the Bible says “To these four

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