The change HE is able to make

 

Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion, He understood
All I had to offer him, was brokenness and strife
But He made something, beautiful of my life

If there ever were dreams that were lofty and noble
They were my dreams at the start
And the hopes for life’s best were the hopes that I harboured
Down deep in my heart

But my dreams turned to ashes
My castles are crumbled
My fortune turned to loss
So I wrapped it all in the rags of my life
And laid it at the Cross

 

Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion, He understood
All I had to offer him, was brokenness and strife
But He made something, beautiful of my life
He made something, beautiful of my life

A child's response to "Who is Jesus?"

 

Trust and obey

 

Meditation from J. Kirby

Our preconceived thoughts, on the way the Lord works, I am sure, when we see the whole picture , will be smashed and burned. – Our work is entirely to trust and obey.

 

His ways are far more broader and complex than we can grasp, with many moving parts. This involves complete trust on our part.

 

When He called me, He already new my weaknesses and God gives the strength   - be encouraged that you can be part of His magnificent plan.

  Trust and obey

Complete trust will deflect all the darts of the enemy which are intended to spoil our joy.

    Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength – they shall run and not grow weary.

Farsi - God cares

 

Choices

 

"All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way

But the LORD has laid on HIM (the Lord Jesus) the iniquity of us all"    Isaiah 53

Prayer for today

 

My prayer for today

Lord God, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may Your Name be honoured, revered and adored. A glimpse of Your design in nature causes us to worship. The brilliance of a flower expresses the radiance of your creativity.

Yet this fades, and we turn to the unfading glory revealed in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord. As the centuries have passed, His radiance seems only to have become the brighter.

How blessed we are as unworthy mortals to see this splendour and yet live. Indeed, this present understanding of God revealed in Christ, is what makes this life worth living – thank you God our Father.

   And then for eternity, by grace unlimited, we shall be forever learning more of the glories of God unveiled in the Lamb that was slain.

O Lord above, thank you , we worship you for calling us to yourself.

      Keep us in your love, now and forever.    Amen

Heaven - Glorious destination

 

“A better place”

A young person asked, ‘why does God allow death’ – my answer – ‘because God has something better on the other side.’

My dear friend I visit, rejoiced to hear the words

“I am waiting for the dawning of that bright and blessed day,

When the darksome night of sorrow shall have vanished far away,

When forever with the Saviour, far beyond this vale of tears,

I shall swell the song of worship

Through the everlasting years..”

 

Hebrews 11

“All these faithful ones died without receiving what God had promised them, but they saw it from a distance…..  They were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland.

That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a heavenly city for them.”

 

Am I bogged down in the vain hope of this world being that ‘better place’.?  Or am I proclaiming the glorious Gospel of a heavenly hope through a once crucified, now risen Lord Jesus? This the only thing that will change the world for good and create hope beyond this short life. True faith is not bound by time and space. It sees the invisible – God Himself.