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A Snake Saves??
There is a story in the Old Testament which seems really weird. Venomous snakes had moved into the Israelite camp and all who were bitten were dying. And God told Moses to make a bronze snake on a pole and lift it high! Anyone who gazed on that snake would live, even though they'd been bitten! Now there was no magic in the bronze snake that healed them. It was God teaching something in symbolism. Way back in our dim, dark past, something entered our world and began killing us
He Sings over Me...
(Here's a bit of a conceptual one for you...) The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 I love this picture of God in my life. And I feel it! All creation sings out his love to me!! I feel his love singing over me! Pouring out to cover me. I feel it seeping deep into the heart of me - to where I hunger so much for a love as pure and
She Despised Him...
I read something this morning that spoke to me. It was the story of a woman, in love with a man. She was the daughter of a king. She loved a man the king despised. The king knew she loved him, so he used her in an attempt to get him killed. The bride price he named for her involved slaying 100 enemy soldiers - alone. The king never expected him to come through it alive. But he did. And Princess Michal married the man she loved. But the treachery did not stop there. The king d
Forever Saved
I read beautiful things about the finished work of Jesus. How forgiveness for what we have done is all settled and paid for. How our failures cannot cause us to fall out of his hands. And while there is a sense in which this is true, it bothers me a little. Because it can lead to complacency. A place where we feel we can indulge in little things here and there because God's love towards us will not fail. We will not fall out of "being saved". I am uncomfortable with that. And
Old vs New
I'm reading my way through the Bible again - and I'm in the middle of the early Israelite history where God is setting down ground rules for their lives so that he can safely live amongst them. His holiness is not compatible with degradation. It destroys it. In order for him to dwell amongst them as their God and leader, they need to live lives that honour the beauty of his way. Taking on the degraded ways of the nations around them, misrepresents him in terrible ways. Those
Provider of Rest
Had a thought today! It's just a little shift - but somehow big as well! Today is Sabbath. I love Sabbath. It's a day we've been given to rest - no work involved! Just rest in his goodness, notice his gifts, and cherish the relationships he's given us! "The Sabbath was made for man..." - the words of Jesus himself! (Mark 2:27) It came at the end of creation week, when God had finished making all that was a part of our world, and "... it was very good" - his words. (Genesis 1:
Tuning in...
Do you remember when we used to have to turn a dial to tune into a radio station? (Maybe I'm just showing my age now 😄) If you turned the dial too fast it was difficult to actually land on one with a clear signal. You had to turn it carefully, and when you caught some noise you'd gently adjust back and forth until you were right on the wavelength and the signal was coming through clearly. Now if you were on short-wave radio settings, you might land on any number of stations
Written in the Dust...
Jeremiah 17:13 "LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water." Someone opened my eyes this week about this verse in relation to Jesus writing in the dust at the scene where a woman caught in adultery was thrown at his feet for judgement. These men would have well known this verse and imagery, and while many have speculated on
Mind Games
Long ago, I read a book called "The Practice of the the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence. It changed my whole approach to my Christian life! Basically, it recommends becoming aware of the presence of God in every moment of your life, not just keeping it in its own little compartment. It's a great idea! But it can be difficult to do sometimes! Especially when your mind is focused on work skills and relationship dramas. My mind has a little game it plays on me, where music
Battle Grime
I have an angel statue in my garden. It's a replica of the one that guards my Dad's resting place. This one was the original, but it was chipped by the gardeners, so I brought it home and replaced it with a new one. I love the powerful protector sense it projects. This morning I came out to pray after it had been raining. The angel that began a beautiful white, was spattered all over with debris. It looked, even more, like it had been deep in battle on our behalf. And it remi
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