A day out at a nature reserve; watching the hummingbirds, seeing a huge toad and some tiny baby ones, all kinds of ducks, geese, egrets and even a swan. The cottonwood trees were firing cotton seeds everywhere and I got that prompting, from God that He is in all these things, and that I should write about "past and present".
This was reinforced firstly as we took a morning trip to Albuquerque Alpacas. The owner spent some time talking about the genetics of producing the best wool, the best all-round offspring and the 22 different shades of Alpacas in the creation mix. The result was breading championship Alpacas and the finest quality wool.
In the evening we enjoyed our 1st Baseball match, with all the fun in between the innings and then the fireworks added a bit of the spectacular of what humans can create. How sad many folk cannot permit themselves a glimpse at what God creates, blindly claiming chance evolution from stuff which they have no idea how it came into existence – “perhaps it was brought by aliens” is their latest angle – more on this on the next blog.
The LORD’s Day arrives once more. I have lost count of how many people are “so glad” that we have come to share fellowship with them. One man greats me at the door after the service with a huge smile; “I have real hearing problems” he said, “my friend told me I would not understand anything you said even if I did hear it, and I have heard just about everything and understood it all. I am so pleased I came to hear God’s word today and my friend is in for a telling off”. Many others exclaimed “we love the analogy that God’s word tastes sweet”. We cannot always know what we will see, experience, hear or understand - but God surely does!!!!!
So once more I am thinking about where everything has come from. Not just physically, but spiritually too. George gave a testimony in Church and his journey spiritually was much later in life than typically for many people, but joy and love for others diffused from his spiritually awakened soul.
God is talking to me about back home and all the history of where we were in the past, and where we are now. Two verses in Joshua inspire me :-
So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan, … as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. 9 Joshua set up the 12 stones … at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day. Joshua 4:8-9
Previously God’s people were on one side of the river Jordan, the flow was heading down stream with a force – seemingly unstoppable. Yet God interrupts the flow. On the other side the Promised Land beckons and we are now on the other bank with a few memorials, like the building project, the greatly improved praise we enjoy each week, the new leadership in place etc. etc. etc. (PRAISE GOD! - The alternative would not be good!!!)
A pastor once said of this event, “Come on everyone, it gets better from this point on.” Those who are coming on the journey, will be joined by many others – because God is leading the direction we are now taking.
I am not confident that it will get easy and I don’t believe that difficulties won’t lie ahead, but I am assured that God honours those who honour HIM. God wants us all on this journey, each moment of each week, giving thanks, expecting, sensing His presence, giving glory to our creator and redeemer - God of the past, present and the future!
This was reinforced firstly as we took a morning trip to Albuquerque Alpacas. The owner spent some time talking about the genetics of producing the best wool, the best all-round offspring and the 22 different shades of Alpacas in the creation mix. The result was breading championship Alpacas and the finest quality wool.
In the evening we enjoyed our 1st Baseball match, with all the fun in between the innings and then the fireworks added a bit of the spectacular of what humans can create. How sad many folk cannot permit themselves a glimpse at what God creates, blindly claiming chance evolution from stuff which they have no idea how it came into existence – “perhaps it was brought by aliens” is their latest angle – more on this on the next blog.
The LORD’s Day arrives once more. I have lost count of how many people are “so glad” that we have come to share fellowship with them. One man greats me at the door after the service with a huge smile; “I have real hearing problems” he said, “my friend told me I would not understand anything you said even if I did hear it, and I have heard just about everything and understood it all. I am so pleased I came to hear God’s word today and my friend is in for a telling off”. Many others exclaimed “we love the analogy that God’s word tastes sweet”. We cannot always know what we will see, experience, hear or understand - but God surely does!!!!!
So once more I am thinking about where everything has come from. Not just physically, but spiritually too. George gave a testimony in Church and his journey spiritually was much later in life than typically for many people, but joy and love for others diffused from his spiritually awakened soul.
God is talking to me about back home and all the history of where we were in the past, and where we are now. Two verses in Joshua inspire me :-
So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan, … as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. 9 Joshua set up the 12 stones … at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day. Joshua 4:8-9
Previously God’s people were on one side of the river Jordan, the flow was heading down stream with a force – seemingly unstoppable. Yet God interrupts the flow. On the other side the Promised Land beckons and we are now on the other bank with a few memorials, like the building project, the greatly improved praise we enjoy each week, the new leadership in place etc. etc. etc. (PRAISE GOD! - The alternative would not be good!!!)
A pastor once said of this event, “Come on everyone, it gets better from this point on.” Those who are coming on the journey, will be joined by many others – because God is leading the direction we are now taking.
I am not confident that it will get easy and I don’t believe that difficulties won’t lie ahead, but I am assured that God honours those who honour HIM. God wants us all on this journey, each moment of each week, giving thanks, expecting, sensing His presence, giving glory to our creator and redeemer - God of the past, present and the future!
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