Daily Life (Page 2)
Courage
Schantelle’s baptism, a few weeks ago, raised a very interesting perspective that we’d love to share with you to think about. A beautiful young woman, a wife, a mother chose to be baptised the other Sunday. It was a God-honouring service and a joyful celebration of her new life in Christ as we walked to the beach and watched her publicly declare her commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ through baptism. A delightful summer day, sand and ocean a perfect…
No, Lord, You’ve got the Wrong Person!
We all settled back to listen as the young woman stood up to share. She’d been working overseas for several years and was now home for her first break. Tentatively she looked around at us and, without warning, burst into tears. I don’t want to go back, she sobbed. I can’t do it anymore. In faltering words she continued to explain… she wasn’t qualified to do this… she felt totally inadequate. I don’t think there was a dry eye in…
There’s Someone at the Door
Placing my knitting in the basket, I headed for bed. I looked at the clock. Good, I could read for an hour and still get to sleep at a respectable hour. The book I was reading had got to a place where it was difficult to leave. Maybe I could even finish it this evening, I thought. But, even as I was thinking these thoughts, another quiet voice was quietly speaking. The words of Jesus when talking to his disciples…
I’m Missing the Very Thing
I woke this morning and felt as if a flicker of a light had come on. Yes, the same old question keeps lurking in the background… why doesn’t God answer my prayer? He does, I know because he says he will. Then, what’s wrong? The verse that had come into my mind this morning was, “Call on me and I will answer…” Oh, I knew this verse so well! I knew its reference; I could say it ‘off pat’ but,…
Out of the Ordinary God speaks!
There’s a quote I read once from Selwyn Hughes, a 20th century Bible teacher. My goal is God himself… at any cost, dear Lord, by any road. Many of us who read this would say this is also the desire of their heart, but it leaves me thinking God is about to do great things. Will it cost me my life? What enormous sacrifice will he ask of me? But my life, my days are just going on as they…
I wonder…
Who has the Handicap? He sits tied securely in his wheel chair, arms and legs flailing the air, You try to avoid staring as his mother seeks to give him a drink. It has spilt everywhere – all over him, the floor, the mother’s jacket. Food and drink and saliva are running down his chin. You turn the other way pretending not to notice ….. He smiles as you walk toward him longing for your touch, Longing for your smile…
After all, He’s God
I stepped out of the safety of the hospital onto the dark shadowy path. I felt numb but strangely at peace. It seemed to take forever to reach the end of the dark street and enter the old guest house. It was all so strange…so unreal. I fumbled for the key I’d been given and let myself into the dark hall-way. Now to find the number of my room. Stumbling up the stairs, I turned down a narrow passage and…
Oh, no, I’ve forgotten all my memory verses!
And I knew so many, too! From a very young age I’d learnt the Scriptures verse after verse, passage after passage What a heritage! What a privilege to have these treasures tucked away in my heart and mind. As I reflected on this, a feeling of deep regret came over me because I know my own children didn’t have the same opportunity to memorise Scriptures in the same way that I had. Week after week we would learn our…
Faltering Steps
Paul tells us more than once to be imitators of Christ and I woke up this morning with words from a passage in Philippians going through my mind. Our Lord Jesus Christ didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped; he didn’t hang on to this as a right. No, instead, he humbled himself…took on the very nature of a servant…the form of man. He walked in our shoes to such an extent that it led him to…
I don’t want to be tomorrow what I am today
I press on toward the goal. I once heard someone say that if you woke up wanting to sing you’re a singer. I guess if I woke up and wanted to go for a jog, I’d be a jogger. Well, I wake up and want to write…so I guess that makes me a writer. Writing is the way I process and express my thoughts. It’s one of the ways I talk to loved ones, encourage friends, pray or, at times,…
Growing in the Knowledge of God #1
Mmm…I’m not sure if I agree with that…I thumb through my Bible searching for a passage I read just a few days ago that will prove my point…back my point of view. Sound familiar or is that just me? Why is it so difficult to say, Lord, search my heart and show me your truth; search my deepest thoughts that I may be cleansed and brought closer to you. Philippians 3:10 has been my motto for years but do I…
Hold faith until he come!
Until He Come! Why celebrate Easter once a year? The truth of the cross is almost lost, I fear Every day, yes every day until He Come! ‘Till He Come!’ What precious words! Words we’ve long forgotten. ‘Till He Come,’ what does it mean? To our younger generation? What’s happening to our world? I hear the people cry. Is it true its coming to an end? We surely all will die! Our planet’s rapidly declining Are words heard most everywhere.…