The God of Special Revelation
I'd heard this magnificent tidbit of history once before when Ravi Zacharias spoke at the University of Florida some 7 or 8 years ago, but somehow I'd forgotten the power of it. When I read it again in Beth Moore's Patriarchs study, it impacted me as profoundly as it had the first time. You may already be familiar with it yourself, but at the chance that you're not, it's too great a treasure not to share. The following telling of it is what Beth quoted, and was taken from L.E. Goodman's preface to God of Abraham:
Late Monday night, November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal, mathematician, naturalist, skeptic, and bon vivant, underwent a religious experience that profoundly changed his life. On a piece of parchment, later found sewn into his clothing, he wrote: "From about half past ten in the evening until half past midnight. Fire. 'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,' not of the philosophers and scholars. Certainty, certainty, heartfelt joy, peace."
