Remind me. ( Luke 15 v 11-31)

I sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if  the Lord had not intervened ,I know my thought pattern was taken me in a wrong way,anything that takes you away from God,is the wrong way, no matter how legitimate it may appear.In the Irish song  ,'The Mountains of Mourne', a young lad in London writes to his sweetheart in Ireland,of those who where digging for gold in the streets,that's what they told him,so he started digging ,but for all that he found there ,he might as well be,where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea. So often in ones life we are chasing after the gold  at the end of the rainbow ,like those who where digging for gold in the streets,we discover all we have is fools gold Thanks be to God when I found Christ  or He found me, I found true riches,the words of a hymn come  to mind .                                         

                                      'I sighed for rest and happiness, I yearned for them, not Thee;

                                      But while I passed my Saviour by,His love laid hold on me.

                                      Now none but Christ can satisfy, none other  name for me,

                                      There's love and life and lasting joy, Lord Jesus found in Thee'

            'All things were changed when I found Jesus,I found the meaning of life, and I found direction.' 

             'Roll back the curtain of memory now and then,show me where you brought me from and where 

               I could have been, I'm only human and so I forget so remind me,remind me,dear Lord.'

                                                               ' (Words Dottie Rambo),dear Lord

Mighty God ( John 1 v1 )

I often get frustrated when speaking to JWs ,and often think, is it worth while trying to reason with them?,for when it comes down to it ,they are not really interested in what one has to say. Their main aim is to convince you that they are right,and what we believe is wrong. I not so good at discussing with them, I remember speaking to two young girls, I was touching  on the deity of Christ, I quoted from Isaiah 9 were we have a Messianic prophecy, which declares that He is the Mighty God, Now of course you must remember that they are instructed as to how answer as to  these passages. One of the young girls said that He was not almighty,had she a valid point,no she hadn't,there are many Scriptures  that  declare God to be mighty CP Deut 10 v17/Neh 9 v32/Isa 1v 24,and in Isaiah 1 v24 we have God declared to be Almighty and Mighty. So when we read that the Messiah is Mighty God  it means just that.

                                                  'And He will be called Wonderful

                                                  Counsellor ,Mighty God ,Everlasting

                                                   Father,Prince of Peace.'

                                                               Isaiah 9 v 6 

                                                                 

Our wonderful bodies. ( Psalm 139 v 13 - 18 )

  Psalm 139v14  reads,'I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made', Scroggie calls the body 'This wonderful machine,' it truly is ,one could be overwhelmed in trying to take in all that is involved in  our bodies .Here are a few of the amazing contents of our bodies ,their are billions and trillions of cells,There are 10 different systems in our bodies,here are some of them,'Digective/ Immune/ Nervous// Reproductive/ Respiratory,Urinary.Yes we have a wonderful body. The point I would make is this,it could not just have happened,it is impossible.the so called being  evolution is a poor answer indeed no answer as to life on planet earth.Let none of us be blinded by the blinded scientists,who refuse to consider what the word of  God declares ,that God made us.R. C. Sproul wrote the following,' According to scientific materialists,''human beings , like everything else,are merely complex material systems,and are therefore no more,in essence,than extremely clever animals'' Christians, on the other hand,believe that human beings are a union of body and soul and that they are in the image of God,with intellect and will''.

God did it. ( Genesis 1v 1 )

 I will continue considering  the big lie,evolution, I have been thinking much about this subject,I want to start at the beginning, in other words when things came into place.There must be a cause and effect,did everything come into being by chance?,we will look at that.What is chance?let us consider what it isn't,it is not a being,in other words it has no power to do anything,to attribute chance as having casual power or any power is as one person said ,is to, 'suffer rocks in ones head'.Chance describes what may happen,or what may not happen,it has no power to make things happen or not happen.It is also said that time and chance have no being and consequently they have no power.As  the late, R .C. Sproul said,'The fatal flaw of the chance  scientists is they impute real being to the name chance',and they also do that to time.There are those who speak of self creation,which is a nonsense for as R.C.S ,writes,' For something to create itself,it must be before it is.this is impossible.'As I look at the universe,and how this little planet earth is situated, and all the variety of life within this planet it cannot just have happened.As a Christian I believe in a God the only God who created all things,who brought all things into being by the word of His power..

The big,big lie. ( 1 John 5 v 19 )

I had a basic education ,did not like school,there is more to it than that,so who am I to challenge  the very educated scientific world, why should a little nobody like me go against the trend,peddled out continually by people like the respected David Attenborough always pushing his belief on evolution,Most people go along with it after all its D A,and of course the all wise all knowing scientist,tell us its so,so it must be right. So I am a small gog disagreeing with those all knowing people with whom the world gives unquestioning obedience.I know that I am just like a voice crying in the wilderness,I will not be the  first to go against the establishment, Nicolaus Copernicus caused a stir when he said the earth was not the center of the universe,but he was right. A Dr Semmelwels proved the importance of hygiene when a child was being delivered,but the establishment rejected it, but he was right. I believe that the theory of evolution is one of the biggest lies there is,why do I think that?, I will continue this next time. 

                                                 '  The establishment is not always right'

Are you impatient? ( Psalm 40 v 1 )

 Sometimes I feel frustrated, I supposed we all do at times,and recently I found myself asking  our loving heavenly Father why  was He not granting me a particular thing.I should know, the fact is if God is withholding something from us,He must have a good reason. I know that, but never the less I do get impatient,and a sense of frustration fills me. Of course my request may be answered but not yet,patience they say is virtue,but it does not come automatically to us.People do not like waiting,we see it in so many ways,in the lines of the supermarket,you hear people saying 'they have only got two people serving.' And of course on the roads how many accidents are caused by people being impatient.We are not happy with delays,even when its God who is doing the delaying,The thing is we want it now,whatever it may be.why do I have to wait?,why?,God may simply say to us,'Because I said so'. that should be enough, often its not.There is a saying which goes,'The waiting game', God is not into playing games, He is into changing  us from the old to the new, and he says to all of us we have need of patience.to wait on Gods timing,which is always perfect,always.He never comes to late or to early.Psalm 40 v1 reads 'I waited  patiently', it does not say impatiently. Spurgeon points us to our dear Saviour as patience personified,   Impatience  never lingered in His heart,much less escaped His lips in His suffering,one thing for sure He was patient,He waited,and waited,; was patient,and patient to perfection' .David's patience was not in vain, for in v1ff he tells us that the Lord heard his cry,and acted on his behalf.

                                                            'Patience is not a vain exercise'.

                                                   

God is to be feared. ( Revelation 20 v 11 -15)

Psalm 119 v 119-120 reads ,'All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross. My flesh trembles in fear of you',he is speaking about the Lord,I stand in awe of your laws'.Unlike the wicked he loves God's word,he is very conscious of his unworthiness so much so that he trembles in fear before a holy God. Michael Wilcox writes on the psalmist ,'trembling in fear, says ,'Let us not assume complacently that that ' merely means reverence.'. Verse 120 is about the shudder of dread;' For our God is a consuming fire'.(Hebrew 12 v29) Of course the fear of God does mean reverence also ,we must always remember whom God is, He is not our old pal,or our bosom friend He is God and  must be treated with reverence, always bearing in mind that we must not act in ways that offend Him.Consider what our Saviour said,' And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.But rather  fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell'(Matthew  10 v 28) The unsaved care to ignore this truth,alas to their cost, hell is real as sure as heaven is real,every knee shall one day bow before Him,the unsaved in dread and anguish,as they await their terrible fate.the saved will bow before Him,in gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy shown to them,in saving them,from a fate worse than death.

                                                                      'Fear God'