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We Are The ‘Yes’ Of God
Mar 8th
During one of my placements I worked in a police station for a few days. After a hard day’s work I stopped to read a newspaper a few minutes before clocking off. As I was reading the paper I suddenly I realised that the room had gone quiet. A man had come into the room and was staring at me. I kept on reading the paper whilst thinking to myself, “I’m sure I’m supposed to recognise you from somewhere.” Unfortunately I failed to realise that it was the Chief Inspector in charge of the station, until after he’d started having a go at me. No one on the room bothered to say anything in my defence, and before I could open my mouth he had walked out.
Religion?
Feb 28th
Someone once bought me a lottery ticket and I started thinking of all the ways I could help people. For example, it would be great to see the face of someone who was struggling to pay the mortgage when they opened a letter and found a cheque that paid off their mortgage. It would be great to see the face of someone who’d had years of trouble with an old banger of a car, as they opened a letter and found keys to a brand new car parked outside their home. It would be great to help out Christian organisations that were struggling, or to see the face of a friend when you gave them the holiday of a lifetime. Yet, in all this thinking about the help and freedom that people could find, there was this deep down feeling that all this would not really bring about true freedom of heart and mind. This is because the Bible says, only God can really do that. He wants us to find freedom in the life He offers us. And this, rather strangely to some, brings us to the word ‘religion.’
Blessing
Feb 19th
As a young seven-year-old African-American girl Ruby was taken to a mixed school, the first of its kind in the USA. Mobs lined the pathway to the school, and were held back by police as they hurled insults at parents and children. Inside the school, child-psychologists waited to talk to any child that might be frightened or traumatised. Think of how the children must have felt.
One day Ruby was seen to stop briefly and say something under her breath. The counsellors asked her the matter was, and what she had been saying. Ruby replied that she asked God to forgive them because they didn’t know what they were doing. Ruby had her heavenly Father looking after her, and the Great Shepherd walking with her by His Spirit.
