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God's love is so beautiful.

For many reasons, one being because He is God and I can trust Him and rest in Him.

The last few day's I've been asking Him for an answer to a question I had. I love the various ways that God answers.....

Yesterday I felt to go through a small pile of books I have, but not yet read, one being on the book of Joshua. I had picked this book up from Lifeline and it was around the time I was about to start my daily chronologically reading through the bible. I'm now at day 65. I had actually forgotten that I had picked this book up.

After reading the first chapter this morning, I happened to flick further on and open to the 2nd last chapter. On the 3rd page there is a scripture underlined. It was very much highlighted in various ways (like a beacon) with a red pen, and this scripture was the very answer to the question I had been asking God about. This marking, the only one in 4 pages.

I was really pleased as it was God showing me that He hears and knows.  It's in the details!

There's a Season and a Reason

 

I was thinking about this earlier today whilst walking.

That God takes us through seasons and in it, He's working out the reason.

(Not that He doesn't know the reason, but it's effect is being worked out in us).

To teach us, shape us, change us, grow us, to remove things, to instil things, to prepare things. He aligns people, uses circumstances, and we can trust Him with and in the process.

 

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”  Eccl 3:1a

 

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Picture taken at Burleigh Beach

01  July  2016

Leave your baggage behind

During a group worship time this week I saw this picture.

It was of a person carrying an old suitcase. The person walks to the kerb and in a short moment a bus comes along. The person, 'leaves that old case on the kerb', gets on the bus with a looking forward not looking back. The doors shut, and the bus pulls away on to the next destination.

It was a picture where people can at times carry a bag holding things of the past and still be defined by them; shame, things that created pain, memory of sin, etc.

So, to me it was an encouragement for people in their journey with Jesus to leave those things behind. I love the word in Isaiah..."don't remember the former things, don't consider the things of old, behold I do a new thing" (Is 43:18).

Sometimes it seems hard to not pick up the old stuff again, and sometimes, to even let it go in the first place. But trust God's word when He says you are a new creation. Let Him do the work in you.

So if you are carrying some stuff, step into the freedom that is yours in Christ. Leave that old case there on the kerb.... don't look back and don't go pick it up again.

And for some help, some lyrics of an old song came to my thoughts as I wrote this..
If the enemy starts to remind you of your past (don't listen), you just remind him of his future.

(Carman - Revival in the Land).   :)

 

The Dolphin

I was in between work situations, and seeking God for the next move for me. I decided to take a trip North along the east coast of Australia, where my home base stay for the trip was in Forster NSW, (a gorgeous place).  It was a 9 day trip in total.

I really wanted to spend time seeking God.

One evening I heard that there were dolphins in the inlet of Forster and to see them I would have to get up at the crack of dawn.  This I had planned, but the next day I was tired and decided to sleep in.

Later that day I was sitting on this huge open long stretch of beach, no where near the inlet.  There was no one in sight, just open water, with the ocean waves slightly lapping at the beginning of the sand.  I was talking to God and just enjoying the open ocean, fresh air, and time alone.