Sabbath Sunday: Winter Roads
Each Sunday I use my own nature picture and a few words about rest and God’s love for you.
If the picture works this was a picture I took as a passenger in a car with a person starting a new journey. They have no idea if all the driving is worth it. Will there be success or failure at the end of the road?
Faith is taking that drive with no idea where the road will take you. You can’t see around the bend but you’re driven to get in the car and try.
Isn’t that just like life? When I sit down to write I have no idea if anyone will relate to what I’m sharing. But there is a drive to try.
How about with your relationship with God? Did you know it doesn’t have to be a far away distant relationship but an up close and personal one because of His Son, Jesus? Embarking on a relationship with Him guarantees a successful journey. Not an easy one, hence my bleak roads picture. I’ve had hard, HARD times but without that faith, I can’t even go there in my mind.
But I can go places with faith.
And so can you.
You know Julie, if I am honest, there are days when I’d prefer that God was faraway and distant. In the gospels when the Pharisees invited Jesus around for dinner it was never a pleasant experience! Jesus was constantly in their face about their strict adherence to the law of Moses and their hypocrisy. The Pharisees were not the only group he challenged. His disciples got their fair share. Jesus was not afraid to give them hard words. The later half of John 6 is a great example of this. Verse 52 says … the Jews argued among themselves, “How… Read more »