Jesus is the Word at the beginning, one with God, the Lord most High. He was present at and responsible for the creation of the world, with such power and strength that we will never fully understand (at least not until He comes again!).
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By meditating on God's Word in scripture, our minds are transformed and our thought patterns are adjusted, aligning more and more with God's thoughts.
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My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. --Isaiah 61:10
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How good are we at being obedient? I guess the other side to that coin is, why don’t we always obey?
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I love the story from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawntreader. It is filled with so many little moments of encounters with God and things He wants to teach us.
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But at church... have you ever heard... God's heartbeat?
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I encourage us pause and relishes with God; in silence. And as we do, God will meet with us, the relationship with grow deeper as He reveals more of Himself to us.
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For unto us a child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And he will be called wonderful, counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace… The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
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Do we so long for the heavenly Jerusalem? There is a sense in which we are exiles, or pilgrims to better country. We travel through a landscape ravaged by sin—our own, and that of others.
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We all like the quick fix. It must be a general human trait, spreading into our spiritual lives. No wonder therefore that Patience is listed as the fruit of the Spirit - and is an attribute of God himself.
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Faith is leaning your whole weight on God. Resting your head on his shoulder.
Faith means resting - relying - not on who we are or what we can do, or how we feel, or what we know.
Faith is resting in who God is and what He has done.
And He has done EVERYTHING.
I know another perfect analogy. It is just like when you are on holiday and you see something amazing or beautiful or just really cool. I don’t know what it is about us humans, but for some reason, our next instinctual thing to do is turn around and find somebody who is with us to say “Look at that! How amazing is that!”
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God alone is the prize. Just Him. God, in all His beauty and majesty and might is our prize. So I encourage you to continue to seek God alone. Spend time in His presence, talk with Him, just BE with him. Relish in His company. Worship Him. He is the One who encompasses all you are searching for.
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There is a great deal of injustice that we see in this story where it appears that Jacob is rewarded by God for being a liar and a deceiver. He got what he wanted, and he also got to play a massive part in God’s big eternal plan.
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Confession. It's not a word we like to hear. It means admitting fault, surrendering pride and confidence in yourself. The world around us loves independence and self-sufficiency. But we must not be swayed by the culture around us and put too high a value on these things, even if they can be good. We must be shaped by the gospel of grace, love, humility and compassion
And this is why confession is so essential. Without it we portray ourselves as the ones who decide right and wrong, who control our own destinies. We idolise ourselves.
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God has stirred (maybe pounded!!) my heart recently to think on, devote and invest towards the things that He sees as important. Towards the things that breaks His heart. God gave me a friendly nudge to point me in the direction of His heart. He recalled to my thoughts a couple of lines in a Christian song which go like this:
Break my heart for what breaks Yours. Everything I am for your kingdom’s cause.
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God is the one who gives righteousness. He’s the one who can ‘fix’ us. What do we give to someone who fixes things? Something that is broken of course.
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Although this is a lover speaking to his beloved, I heard the voice of God strongly in this passage. I felt encouraged that He is wanting us to leave behind the 'winter’ - spiritual troubles arising from a deep sense of the guilt of sin, the wrath of God, the curse of the law (things that would make anyone feel afraid to come to God). Jesus has removed these things from us and connected us with God's grace (flowers appearing on the earth - a time of singing).
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We can also look forward to the day when our healing will be complete and we will be physically raised in Christ with perfect bodies in a perfect world, in perfect relationship with God our Heavenly Father. We will be like calves who have spent all winter, the only life they’ve ever known, in a stall. When the farmer comes at the start of spring to release them out to their pasture, they have no real understanding of what awaits them, but when they get there, they jump and leap and run for sheer and pure joy! We can only speculate about the beauty of heaven and eternity with God, the trinity. But we have this assurance that we will “go out leaping like calves from the stall” when we get there!
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Catastrophe, pain or suffering can be a means of grace. Grace signifies the good-will of God towards us, and that is enough to enlighten and enliven us, sufficient to strengthen and comfort in all our pain and distress. It is often by the grace of a catastrophe that people may come to have a real and true encounter with God, because it blows away any abstracts of theory and gives meaning and purpose to our walk.
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